Cessna 177A
N30553 is a Cessna 177A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Jfe LLC, an LLC in Flossmoor, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 3, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 18, 1968.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 177A · all 177As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 177 Cardinal family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 17701322
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A33508 (octal 50632410)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 3, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 18, 1968
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00751223
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jfe LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 926 Sterling Ave
Flossmoor, IL 60422-1241
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N30553 links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 177 Cardinal 2,158 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360 / VO-360 series 11,930 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Jfe LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Flossmoor, IL 3 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,055 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 177 Cardinal 37 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 177 Cardinal 263 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 177 Cardinal 396 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N30553, 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 Jfe LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 3, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 18, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17701322 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N30553 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N30553. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data