Cessna 195
N4494C is a Cessna 195, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1953. It has 5 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Bridgeport, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 16, 2015 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 11, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 195 · all 195s and related versions
- Serial number
- 16078
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Jacobs R755B SERIES · 275 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1953
- Cruising speed
- 146 mph
- Transponder code
- A56EF3 (octal 51267363)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 16, 2015
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 11, 1991
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00022674
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- West Thomas P
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 70863 Chermont Rd
Bridgeport, OH 43912-9796 - Co-owners
- Obrien Sean P
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 N4494C, 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 West Thomas P, a co-owned, certificate issued July 16, 2015, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 11, 1991, 38 years after the 1953 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 16078 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4494C 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 N4494C: Accident on September 24, 1995 at Moriarty, NM: 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 195 · operated under 091
the pilot's inadequate compensation for the winds. A factor was the crosswind.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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