Cessna 170
N4292V 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 Elk, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 27, 2014 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 8, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 170 · all 170s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18650
- 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
- A51FC0 (octal 51217700)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 27, 2014
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 8, 1957
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00391984
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Powers James E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 37609 N Sheets Rd
Elk, WA 99009-8689
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 N4292V, 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 Powers James E, an individual, certificate issued January 27, 2014, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 8, 1957, 9 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 18650 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4292V 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]
2 NTSB records under N4292V: Accident on July 19, 1997 at Graham, WA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on January 2, 1983 at Plato Center, IL: 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: Cessna 170 · operated under 091
Inadequate aircraft preflight by the pilot-in-command, and water contamination in the fuel resulting in a loss of engine power. A factor was a power transmission line in the forced landing area.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA97LA173 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 170 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI83LA071 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data