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N2881C

Cessna 170B

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlaska

N2881C is a Cessna 170B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2004 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 25, 1955.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
170B · all 170Bs and related versions
Serial number
26424
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 · Cont Motor C145 SERIES · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1954
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A2EE31 (octal 50567061)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
January 22, 2004
Expires
June 30, 2029
Last FAA action
August 11, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 25, 1955
FAA region
AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00400563

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Compton Steven
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
1811 Westchester Cir
Anchorage, AK 99517-1330
Co-owners
Compton Karen

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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N2881C, 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 Compton Steven, a co-owned, certificate issued January 22, 2004, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated July 25, 1955, consistent with the 1954 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 26424 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N2881C 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N2881C. 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 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