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N478TC

Cessna 177B

Valid Nebraska

N478TC is a Cessna 177B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Omaha, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 7, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 8, 1976.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
177B · all 177Bs and related versions
Serial number
17702388
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1975
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
A5E07E (octal 51360176)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 7, 2021
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · January 8, 1976
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00400680

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rotschafer Randall P
Type
Individual
Address
1221 N 164Th St
Omaha, NE 68118-2451

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N478TC, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Rotschafer Randall P, an individual, certificate issued January 7, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated January 8, 1976, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17702388 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N478TC according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N478TC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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