Cessna 170
N4178V 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 an individual in Foley, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 8, 2006 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 27, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 170 · all 170s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18511
- 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
- A4F1A5 (octal 51170645)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 8, 2006
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 27, 1956
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00071604
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Van Dyke Robert L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 18609 Loretta Dr
Foley, AL 36535-7901
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 N4178V, 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 Dyke Robert L, an individual, certificate issued August 8, 2006, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 27, 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18511 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4178V 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 N4178V: Accident on January 29, 2026 at Summerdale, AL: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 170 · operated under 091
The pilot’s decision to abort the takeoff with insufficient runway remaining, which resulted in a runway overrun and impact with a fence post.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA26LA101 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