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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 170A · all 170As and related versions
- Serial number
- 19650
- 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
- A72407 (octal 51622007)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 26, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 26, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · October 7, 1955
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00960126
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Patterson Morgan B
- Type
- Co-owned
- 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.
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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]
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 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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA17CA445 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 170A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI89LA021 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