Cessna 170B
N4473B is a Cessna 170B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1955. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dexter, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 18, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 15, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 170B · all 170Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 26817
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1955
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A56761 (octal 51263541)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 18, 2019
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 15, 1956
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00572694
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Benedict Larry D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 612
Dexter, NM 88230-0612
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 N4473B, 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 Benedict Larry D, an individual, certificate issued July 18, 2019, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated June 15, 1956, consistent with the 1955 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 26817 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4473B 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 N4473B: Accident on September 10, 1993 at Gilbertsville, KY: serious 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 170B · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S INADEQUATE COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS, WHICH RESULTED IN A LOSS OF DIRECTIONAL CONTROL. THE CROSSWIND WAS A RELATED FACTOR.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO93LA168 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