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N34980

Cessna 177B

Valid Georgia

N34980 is a Cessna 177B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Marietta, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 27, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 4, 1974.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
177B · all 177Bs and related versions
Serial number
17702132
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1974
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
A3E246 (octal 50761106)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 27, 2020
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 29, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · September 4, 1974
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00342703

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Augestad Robert D
Type
Individual
Address
1860 Kristen Mill Way
Marietta, GA 30062-7703

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

1946-05-01Douglas DC3-G202A · exported to Denmark · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N34980, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Augestad Robert D, an individual, certificate issued January 27, 2020, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 4, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17702132 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N34980 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas DC3-G202A (serial 42976, cancelled May 1, 1946). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N34980: Accident on September 28, 1991 at Lake Charles, LA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

FTW91LA167Accident on September 28, 1991 at Lake Charles, LA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 177B · operated under 091

THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO PERFORM A COMPLETE PREFLIGHT INSPECTION WHICH RESULTED IN A TOTAL LOSS OF ENGINE POWER DUE TO FUEL EXHAUSTION AS A RESULT OF INADEQUATE FUEL SUPPLY.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW91LA167 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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