Cessna 177RG
N52881 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 Cardinal Air, a corporation in Gold Hill, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2014 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 5, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 177RG · all 177RGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 177RG1298
- 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
- A6AA30 (octal 51525060)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 2014
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 5, 1978
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00132605
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cardinal Air
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 190 Aviation Ln
Gold Hill, NC 28071-8700
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N52881, 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 Cardinal Air, a corporation, certificate issued August 26, 2014, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 5, 1978, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 177RG1298 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N52881 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Consolidated Vultee SNV-1 (serial 7185, cancelled March 2, 1949). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N52881: Accident on October 4, 2018 at Albermarle, NC: no 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 pilot's improper decision to attempt a gear-up glide to the runway and his subsequent failure to extend the landing gear before landing. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's failure to use a checklist before landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA19CA017 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