Cessna 177B
N177TJ is a Cessna 177B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Medina, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 14, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 4, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 177B · all 177Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17702593
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A134E0 (octal 50232340)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 14, 2020
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- November 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 4, 1977
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00303050
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cobb Joseph JR
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 2550 Columbia Rd
Medina, OH 44256-9414 - Co-owners
- Cobb Katina
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N177TJ, 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 Cobb Joseph JR, a co-owned, certificate issued July 14, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 4, 1977, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17702593 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N177TJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Owens Tom SMYTH SIDEWINDER (serial 2559, cancelled August 8, 1996). 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]
1 NTSB record under N177TJ: Accident on June 16, 1996 at Minden, LA: minor injuries, destroyed. 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: Owens/Smyth SIDEWINDER · operated under 091
The pilot's improper fuel consumption calculations resulting in fuel exhaustion. A factor was the unsuitable terrain for the forced landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data