Cessna 177RG
N534DW is a Cessna 177RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Valiair LTD CO Trustee, an LLC in Casper, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 8, 1976.
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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
- 177RG1004
- 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
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 120 mph
- Transponder code
- A6BFA9 (octal 51537651)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 20, 2026
- 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 · September 8, 1976
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00142573
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Valiair LTD CO Trustee
- 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
- 330 S Center St
Casper, WY 82601-2840
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 N534DW links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 177 Cardinal 2,158 registered
- Cessna 72,684 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
- Valiair LTD CO Trustee 44 aircraft in the fleet
- Casper, WY 1,206 aircraft registered in this town
- Casper/Natrona County International · CPR
- Irwins Sky Ranch Airport · HAD
- Wyoming 3,228 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
- Report filed on this aircraft: Shimmy Dampener, misinstalled · 2005-01-20
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N534DW.json.
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The public federal record on N534DW, 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 Valiair LTD CO Trustee, an LLC, certificate issued June 24, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 8, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 177RG1004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N534DW 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 N534DW. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data