Cessna 177RG
N52885 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 an individual in Potomac, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 2002 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 10, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 177RG · all 177RGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 177RG1300
- 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
- A6AA34 (octal 51525064)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 21, 2002
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 10, 1978
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00102605
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Foster David F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2 Sotweed Ct
Potomac, MD 20854-4737
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N52885, 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 Foster David F, an individual, certificate issued March 21, 2002, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 10, 1978, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 177RG1300 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N52885 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N52885. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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