Cessna 170A
N5579C 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 co-owned owners in Upland, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 1, 1992 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 27, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 170A · all 170As and related versions
- Serial number
- 19633
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1950
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A71D02 (octal 51616402)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 1, 1992
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · September 27, 1955
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00260086
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Strope Byron P
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1398 Rosewood St
Upland, CA 91784-1734 - Co-owners
- Strope Kelley A
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.
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The public federal record on N5579C, 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 Strope Byron P, a co-owned, certificate issued May 1, 1992, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 27, 1955, 5 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 19633 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5579C 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]
1 NTSB record under N5579C: Accident on April 11, 1987 at Durango, CO: 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 170A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN87LA095 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data