Beech D17S
N9290H is a Beech D17S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Delta Enterprise, a corporation in Brighton, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 1994 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying, dated April 2, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- D17S · all D17Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 6726
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 158 mph
- Transponder code
- ACE1F9 (octal 53160771)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 10, 1994
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Aerial surveying · April 2, 1956
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00160581
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Delta Enterprise
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 15871 Duquesne Cr
Brighton, CO 80601
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N9290H, 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 Delta Enterprise, a corporation, certificate issued June 10, 1994, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 2, 1956, 12 years after the 1944 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 6726 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9290H 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]
1 NTSB record under N9290H: Accident on March 11, 2016 at Brighton, CO: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech D17 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain the runway course during takeoff, resulting in the airplane drifting to the left and impacting a fence. A contributing factor to the accident was the pilot's diverted attention during the takeoff.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16CA146 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data