Cessna 170A
N5542C is a Cessna 170A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1950. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Knoxville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 18, 1974 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 9, 1956. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 170A · all 170As and related versions
- Serial number
- 19818
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C145 SERIES · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1950
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A710E8 (octal 51610350)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 18, 1974
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 9, 1956
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00253535
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Patterson Phillip L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1933 River Sound Dr
Knoxville, TN 37922-5660
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 1
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The public federal record on N5542C, 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 Patterson Phillip L, an individual, certificate issued May 18, 1974, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 9, 1956, 6 years after the 1950 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 19818 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5542C according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 1, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5542C. 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