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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 177RG · all 177RGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 177RG1284
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 120 mph
- Transponder code
- A6A988 (octal 51524610)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 4, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 4, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 23, 1977
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00102585
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Benham Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1901 Indian Dr
Enid, OK 73703-6710
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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 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]
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 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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA91LA009 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
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