Cessna 170A
N5596C 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 Yuma, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 26, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 7, 1955.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 170A · all 170As 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. The original 1948 170 had fabric-covered wings; the 170A and 170B are all-metal. This is how the Cessna 170 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
- 19650
- 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 · Cont Motor C145 SERIES · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1950
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A72407 (octal 51622007)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 26, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 26, 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 · October 7, 1955
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00960126
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Patterson Morgan B
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1951 Country Ln
Yuma, AZ 85365 - Co-owners
- Patterson Jilian J
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 N5596C links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 170 2,085 registered
- Cessna 72,685 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental C145 series 1,828 aircraft with this engine series · 145 hp
- Yuma, AZ 175 aircraft registered in this town
- Yuma Mcas/Yuma International · NYL
- Arizona 8,415 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 170 16 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 170 60 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 170 293 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental C145 series 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental C145 series 8 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N5596C, 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 Morgan B, a co-owned, certificate issued March 26, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 7, 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 19650 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5596C 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]
2 NTSB records under N5596C: Accident on July 27, 2017 at San Andreas, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on November 2, 1988 at Springfield, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 170 · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper landing flare during an aborted go-around in gusting wind conditions, which resulted in a hard landing.
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Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 170A · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data