Cessna 177RG
N52838 is a Cessna 177RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Benham Aviation LLC, an LLC in Enid, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 4, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 23, 1977.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 177RG · all 177RGs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 177 Cardinal family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 177RG1284
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D · 200 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 120 mph
- Transponder code
- A6A988 (octal 51524610)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 4, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 4, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 23, 1977
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00102585
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Benham Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1901 Indian Dr
Enid, OK 73703-6710
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.
Connections how N52838 links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 177 Cardinal 2,159 registered
- Cessna 72,682 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D 844 aircraft with this engine series · 200 hp
- Benham Aviation LLC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate
- Enid, OK 128 aircraft registered in this town
- Enid Woodring Regional · WDG
- Oklahoma 5,655 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 177 Cardinal 37 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 177 Cardinal 263 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 177 Cardinal 396 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D 36 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D 3 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N52838, 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 Benham Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 4, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 23, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 177RG1284 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N52838 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 N52838: Accident on October 14, 1990 at De Funiak Spgs, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 177RG · operated under 091
THE LOOSE FUEL CAP AND FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO ASSURE THE AIRCRAFT WAS PROPERLY PREFLIGHTED, WHICH RESULTED IN FUEL SIPHONING AND SUBSEQUENT FUEL EXHAUSTION. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: FAULTY FUEL QUANTITY GAGES, THE PILOT'S DECISION TO FLY WITH KNOWN DEFICIENCIES IN THE AIRCRAFT, DARK NIGHT, LACK OF A SUITABLE LANDING AREA, AND THE VEHICLE.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data