Cessna 170B
N4493B 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 co-owned owners in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 9, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 13, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 170B · all 170Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 26837
- 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
- A56ECF (octal 51267317)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 9, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 13, 1956
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00702664
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gridley Trevor M
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 542 Farmers Loop Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99712-1407 - Co-owners
- Gridley Deena M
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 N4493B, 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 Gridley Trevor M, a co-owned, certificate issued January 9, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated June 13, 1956, consistent with the 1955 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 26837 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4493B 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 N4493B: Accident on July 29, 2022 at Fairbank'S, AK: no 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 student pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the takeoff roll.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR22LA289 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