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N17040

Porterfield 35-70

N17040 is a Porterfield 35-70, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Gilroy, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 28, 2011 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 1, 1993.

Aircraft

Maker
Porterfield
Model
35-70
Serial number
240
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-520 SER · 300 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1976
Cruising speed
76 mph
Transponder code
A11C2A (octal 50216052)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 28, 2011
Expires
November 30, 2027
Last FAA action
April 1, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · December 1, 1993
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00813961

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Prather Carl L
Type
Individual
Address
9568 Estates Dr
Gilroy, CA 95020-9193

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.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data