Cessna 175
N40184 is a Cessna 175, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 5, 1958.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 175 · all 175s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 175 Skylark family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 55245
- 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 GO-300 SERIES · 175 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1958
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A4B3E5 (octal 51131745)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 2, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 2, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · June 5, 1958
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00560111
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stoots David A
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3686 University Ave S
Fairbanks, AK 99709-4658
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 4
Connections how N40184 links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 175 Skylark 925 registered
- Cessna 72,688 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental GO-300 series 808 aircraft with this engine series · 175 hp
- Fairbanks, AK 842 aircraft registered in this town
- Fairbanks International · FAI
- Gold King Creek Airport · AK7
- Chena River Seaplane Base · 2Z5
- Alaska 9,143 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 175 Skylark 19 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 175 Skylark 73 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 175 Skylark 232 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental GO-300 series 4 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental GO-300 series 16 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N40184, 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 Stoots David A, an individual, certificate issued April 2, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated June 5, 1958, consistent with the 1958 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 55245 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40184 was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Leonard Anthony C KEUTHN ACFT BUCNR II (serial B2BK044, cancelled October 30, 1997); Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 1453, cancelled January 10, 1992); Ayres Corporation S2R-T15 (serial T15006, cancelled June 17, 1988). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
2 NTSB records under N40184: Accident on May 31, 1987 at Grantsville, MD: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 13, 1984 at Climax, GA: minor 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ayres S2R-T15 · operated under 137
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ayres S2R-T15 · operated under 137
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data