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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026Cessna 319
N37880 is a Cessna 319, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1957. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Mississippi State University, a government body in Starkville, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 23, 1958 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development.
Where is it now Last seen October 13 at 9:49 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 319
- Serial number
- 608
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1957
- Cruising speed
- 168 mph
- Transponder code
- A4550C (octal 51052414)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 23, 1958
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and developmentFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00960164
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mississippi State University (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 114 Airport Rd
Starkville, MS 39759-9678
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N37880 links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 72,683 aircraft on the register
- Continental O-470 series 12,780 aircraft with this engine series · 230 hp
- Mississippi State University 12 aircraft in the fleet
- Starkville, MS 68 aircraft registered in this town
- George M Bryan Airport · STF
- Oktibbeha Airport · M51
- Mississippi 2,600 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental O-470 series 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental O-470 series 148 reports since 1995
- Where N37880 is now · Last seen October 13 at 9:49 am.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N37880.json.
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The public federal record on N37880, 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 Mississippi State University, a government body, certificate issued October 23, 1958, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for research and development; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 608 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N37880 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N37880. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data