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A Cessna 177 Cardinal, the same model family as N1292C
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N1292C

Cessna 177B

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesIllinois

N1292C is a Cessna 177B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Trout Island Transit LLC, an LLC in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 6, 1977.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
177B · all 177Bs and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 177 Cardinal 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
17702696
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 · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1977
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
A077C2 (octal 50073702)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
May 24, 2026
Expires
May 31, 2033
Last FAA action
May 24, 2026
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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 6, 1977
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00760710

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Trout Island Transit 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
609 Forest Ave
Glen Ellyn, IL 60137-4107

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1960-04-25Piper PA-18A-135 · exported to Germany · Valid registration

Connections how N1292C links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Glen Ellyn, IL 15 aircraft registered in this town
  • Illinois 8,055 aircraft registered
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N1292C.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N1292C, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Trout Island Transit LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 24, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated October 6, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17702696 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1292C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-18A-135 (serial 18-2501, cancelled April 25, 1960). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N1292C. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data