Cessna 177RG
N27JS is a Cessna 177RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Smith Cattle Company LLC, an LLC in Steamboat Rock, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 3, 2015 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 177RG · all 177RGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 177RG0629
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 120 mph
- Transponder code
- A2A4FC (octal 50522374)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 3, 2015
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00623492
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Cattle Company LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 30281 185Th St
Steamboat Rock, IA 50672-8073
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.
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The public federal record on N27JS, 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 Smith Cattle Company LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 3, 2015, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 177RG0629 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N27JS according to the deregistered file. [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 N27JS: Accident on August 16, 2001 at Sikeston, MO: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Cessna 177RG · operated under 091
The loss of engine power during the initial climb due to fuel contamination, water. A factor relating to the accident was the trees.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI01LA283 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 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