Cessna 170B
N39781 is a Cessna 170B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 17, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 16, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 170B · all 170Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 25723
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C145 SERIES · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A4A054 (octal 51120124)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 17, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 17, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 16, 1985
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00960764
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Van Buren Nathaniel O
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1511 Nunaka Dr
Anchorage, AK 99504-2439
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 N39781, 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 Van Buren Nathaniel O, an individual, certificate issued August 17, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25723 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N39781 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 N39781: Accident on April 17, 1996 at Chicken, AK: 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 first pilot's failure to maintain clearance with a tree. Factors in the accident were the first pilot's inadequate preflight planning and preparation and soft snow conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC96LA052 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