Cessna 177RG
N52946 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 El Segundo, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 7, 2018 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 17, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 177RG · all 177RGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 177RG1317
- 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
- A6AD60 (octal 51526540)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 7, 2018
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 17, 1978
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00822615
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pluntze Stephen C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 905 Maryland St
El Segundo, CA 90245-2547
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 N52946, 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 Pluntze Stephen C, an individual, certificate issued November 7, 2018, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 17, 1978, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 177RG1317 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N52946 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild M-62A-3 (serial FT-619, cancelled March 14, 1950). 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 N52946: Accident on August 18, 2022 at Avalon, CA: 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 failure to extend the landing gear before landing, resulting in a gear up landing and substantial damage to the airplane’s belly.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR22LA373 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