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N217AF

Cessna 177RG

N217AF is a Cessna 177RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to South 40Th Rentals LLC, an LLC in Jamul, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 6, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 13, 1976.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
177RG · all 177RGs and related versions
Serial number
177RG1011
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D · 200 hp
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
120 mph
Transponder code
A1D389 (octal 50351611)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 6, 2023
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
February 6, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · October 13, 1976
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00362603

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
South 40Th Rentals LLC
Type
LLC
Address
3220 Reservoir Dr
Jamul, CA 91935-2018

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

1995-02-17Cessna 177RG · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N217AF, 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 South 40Th Rentals LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 6, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 177RG1011 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N217AF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 177RG (serial 177RG0717, cancelled February 17, 1995). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N217AF: Accident on August 12, 1994 at So. Lake Tahoe, CA: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal). 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 1

LAX94FA318Accident on August 12, 1994 at So. Lake Tahoe, CA: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 0717

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 177RG · operated under 091

The pilot's decision to take off from a high density altitude airport at an over allowable gross weight condition. Factors in the accident were the high density altitude, down drafts, and the pilot's lack of familiarity operting from high density altitude airports.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX94FA318 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 August 27, 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