Cessna 177
N3497T is a Cessna 177, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lake Jackson, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 1998 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 29, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 177 · all 177s and related versions
- Serial number
- 17700797
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A3E21C (octal 50761034)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 11, 1998
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · January 29, 1968
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00732683
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Seth Stephen L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 215 Dewberry Dr
Lake Jackson, TX 77566-4977
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 N3497T, 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 Seth Stephen L, an individual, certificate issued July 11, 1998, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 29, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17700797 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3497T 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 N3497T: Accident on September 16, 1995 at Camp Lake, WI: 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 pilot's inadequate compensation for wind conditions, and failure to maintain altitude/clearance from the power line, while on short final approach. The downdraft was a related factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI95LA324 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