Cessna 206
N5173U is a Cessna 206, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Tioga, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 27, 2016 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 13, 1964.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 206 · all 206s and related versions
- Serial number
- 206-0173
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 132 mph
- Transponder code
- A67E44 (octal 51477104)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 27, 2016
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 13, 1964
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00622175
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Knutson Wayne R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 337
Tioga, ND 58852-0337
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 N5173U, 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 Knutson Wayne R, an individual, certificate issued October 27, 2016, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 13, 1964, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 206-0173 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5173U 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 N5173U: Accident on December 14, 1985 at Hardin, MT: no injuries, destroyed. 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 206 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN86LA046 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