Cessna 170B
N4687C is a Cessna 170B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1953. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Palmer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2002 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 170B · all 170Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 25631
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C145 SERIES · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1953
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A5BAA3 (octal 51335243)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 28, 2002
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00293344
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bendixen Ralph R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 4734
Palmer, AK 99645-4734
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 N4687C, 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 Bendixen Ralph R, an individual, certificate issued February 28, 2002, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25631 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4687C 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 N4687C: Accident on February 23, 1987 at Anchorage, 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC87LA040 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