Cessna 177B
N34284 is a Cessna 177B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Umatilla, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 30, 2011 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 2, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 177B · all 177Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17701749
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A3C849 (octal 50744111)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 30, 2011
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 2, 1972
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00552483
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ladd Michael
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 2265
Umatilla, FL 32784-2265
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N34284, 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 Ladd Michael, an individual, certificate issued April 30, 2011, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 2, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17701749 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N34284 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Abco SPECIAL (serial 105, cancelled April 19, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N34284: Accident on February 24, 2025 at Iron River, MI: 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 177 · operated under 091
The airplane’s collision with runway lights during takeoff due to reduced airplane climb performance. Contributing to the accident was the shifting winds during takeoff which likely developed into a tailwind.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA102 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