Cessna 170B
N3462C 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 an individual in Ruffin, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 22, 2018 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 18, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 170B · all 170Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 26505
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1954
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A3D639 (octal 50753071)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 22, 2018
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 18, 1956
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00852583
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Givens Benjamin T
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 13246 Lowcountry Hwy
Ruffin, SC 29475-4023
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.
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N3462C, 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 Givens Benjamin T, an individual, certificate issued March 22, 2018, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated April 18, 1956, consistent with the 1954 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 26505 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3462C 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 N3462C: Accident on May 11, 2002 at San Diego, CA: 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 170B · operated under 091
The failure of the dual student to maintain directional control of the airplane and the instructor's delayed the remedial action, which resulted in a ground loop. A factor in the accident was the gusting crosswind conditions.
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data