Cessna 170
N4261V 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 Stephenville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 4, 1989 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 28, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 170 · all 170s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18617
- 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
- A51478 (octal 51212170)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 4, 1989
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 28, 1956
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00661894
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wells Bryan G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1205 Glen Rose Rd
Stephenville, TX 76401-5401
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 N4261V, 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 Wells Bryan G, an individual, certificate issued April 4, 1989, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18617 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4261V 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 N4261V. 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 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