Cessna 170B
N3488C 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 Cave Creek, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 15, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 170B · all 170Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 26531
- 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
- A3DE79 (octal 50757171)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 6, 2022
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · November 15, 1955
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00732673
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Baker Dean C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5130 E Cascalote Dr
Cave Creek, AZ 85331-2901
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.
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The public federal record on N3488C, 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 Baker Dean C, an individual, certificate issued September 6, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated November 15, 1955, consistent with the 1954 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 26531 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3488C 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 N3488C: Accident on May 13, 2015 at Bentonville, AR: 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 flight instructor's failure to maintain directional control, which resulted in a ground loop on takeoff.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA15CA076 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