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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026Boeing PT-17
N9998 is a Boeing PT-17, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rockledge, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 6, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- PT-17 · all PT-17s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. The Stearman: welded steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric over all of it. This is how the Boeing PT-17 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
- 41-1059
- 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 · Cont Motor W670 SERIES · 250 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- ADF782 (octal 53373602)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 6, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 6, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00993250
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Minor J Mark
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 6285 Bertram Dr
Rockledge, FL 32955-5730
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N9998 links to the rest of the register
- Boeing PT-17 36 registered
- Boeing 6,677 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental W670 series 987 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Rockledge, FL 43 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,698 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing PT-17 3 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Continental W670 series 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental W670 series 8 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N9998.json.
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The public federal record on N9998, 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 Minor J Mark, an individual, certificate issued August 6, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 41-1059 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9998 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Travel Air 2000 (serial 1148, cancelled February 19, 1975). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N9998. 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 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 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 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data