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N34049

Cessna 177B

Valid Michigan

N34049 is a Cessna 177B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Harbor Springs, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 13, 1999 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 1, 1971. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
177B · all 177Bs and related versions
Serial number
17701616
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1971
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
A3C054 (octal 50740124)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 13, 1999
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · February 1, 1971
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00682423

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Osetek James
Type
Individual
Address
7444 S State Rd
Harbor Springs, MI 49740-8608

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 1

2026-09-10Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Earlier use of this number 1

1950-03-20Taylorcraft BC12-65 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N34049, 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 Osetek James, an individual, certificate issued September 13, 1999, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 1, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17701616 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N34049 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft BC12-65 (serial 2913, cancelled March 20, 1950). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 10, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N34049. 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 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