Cessna 177B
N34809 is a Cessna 177B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Salem, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 30, 2000 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 18, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 177B · all 177Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17702017
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A3DD80 (octal 50756600)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 30, 2000
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 18, 1973
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00442643
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Grassmyer Richard M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 105 Walker Blvd
Salem, IN 47167-9172
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N34809, 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 Grassmyer Richard M, an individual, certificate issued June 30, 2000, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 18, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17702017 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N34809 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Porterfield FP-65 (serial 911, cancelled June 19, 1959). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N34809. 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 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