The U.S. aircraft register, updated daily · Carbon Free Flight by 2050
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 2, 2026
N1896C

Cessna 170B

Valid Texas

N1896C is a Cessna 170B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1953. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Terrell, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 26, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 30, 1956.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
170B · all 170Bs and related versions
Serial number
26041
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C145 SERIES · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1953
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A16548 (octal 50262510)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 26, 2024
Expires
February 28, 2031
Last FAA action
February 26, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · March 30, 1956
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00672810

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gladish Jeffrey
Type
Individual
Address
140 Dower Rd
Terrell, TX 75160-1100

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.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N1896C, 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 Gladish Jeffrey, an individual, certificate issued February 26, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 30, 1956, 3 years after the 1953 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 26041 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N1896C according to the deregistered file. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

2 NTSB records under N1896C: Accident on June 1, 1998 at Los Alamos, NM: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on February 26, 1983 at Buffalo, WY: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 2

FTW98LA251Accident on June 1, 1998 at Los Alamos, NM: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 170B · operated under 091

The pilot's inadequate compensation for the wind conditions. Contributing factors were the crosswinds, the fence, and the ditch.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

DEN83LA068Accident on February 26, 1983 at Buffalo, WY: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 170B · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data