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N517TG

Cessna 170

N517TG is a Cessna 170, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rock Island, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 17, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 8, 1956. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
170 · all 170s and related versions
Serial number
18517
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C145 SERIES · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A67D20 (octal 51476440)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 17, 2021
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · August 8, 1956
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00352195

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mcdonald Richard Reid
Type
Individual
Address
5100 State Route 28
Rock Island, WA 98850-9565

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 1

2026-09-23Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N517TG, 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 Mcdonald Richard Reid, an individual, certificate issued August 17, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18517 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N517TG according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 23, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N517TG. 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