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N4163V

Cessna 170

Valid Kansas

N4163V is a Cessna 170, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Dighton, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 6, 2009 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 28, 1956.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
170 · all 170s and related versions
Serial number
18495
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C145 SERIES · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1948
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A4ED3F (octal 51166477)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 6, 2009
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · April 28, 1956
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00471554

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Root Shane G
Type
Co-owned
Address
151 N Highway 23
Dighton, KS 67839-5045
Co-owners
Root Tonia R

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.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N4163V, 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 Root Shane G, a co-owned, certificate issued July 6, 2009, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 28, 1956, 8 years after the 1948 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18495 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4163V according to the deregistered file. [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 N4163V: Accident on June 22, 1999 at Durango, CO: 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

DEN99LA115Accident on June 22, 1999 at Durango, CO: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 170 · operated under 091

The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the aircraft during landing roll. A factor was the high density altitude and the high vegetation (sagebrush).

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN99LA115 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