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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Aero Commander S2R
N8817Q is an Aero Commander S2R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Ruhe Sales LLC, an LLC in Leipsic, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 12, 2014 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated March 27, 1978.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aero Commander
- Model
- S2R · all S2Rs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and aluminiumA welded steel-tube frame carries the loads, with aluminium (and some fibreglass) skins over it. The Snow S-2 crop sprayer, later the Thrush. This is how the Aero Commander S2 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1517R
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P&W PT6 SERIES · 500 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 119 mph
- Transponder code
- AC24E8 (octal 53022350)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 12, 2014
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 27, 1978
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00841971
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ruhe Sales LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5450 State Route 109
Leipsic, OH 45856-9438
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N8817Q links to the rest of the register
- Aero Commander S2 60 registered
- Aero Commander 709 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney PT6 series 70 aircraft with this engine series · 500 hp
- Ruhe Sales LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Leipsic, OH 15 aircraft registered in this town
- Ruhes Airport · R47
- Ohio 8,531 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Aero Commander S2 7 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N8817Q, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Ruhe Sales LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 12, 2014, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 27, 1978, 8 years after the 1970 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1517R for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8817Q according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8817Q. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data