Cessna 190
N56W is a Cessna 190, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1952. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Floodwood, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 31, 2003 and expires on March 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 3, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 190 · all 190s and related versions
- Serial number
- 7952
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Jacobs R755B SERIES · 275 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1952
- Cruising speed
- 147 mph
- Transponder code
- A72685 (octal 51623205)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 31, 2003
- Expires
- March 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 3, 2003
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00120166
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Karpik Joseph P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12298 Rudolph Rd
Floodwood, MN 55736-8305
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N56W, 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 Karpik Joseph P, an individual, certificate issued March 31, 2003, expires March 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 3, 2003, 51 years after the 1952 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 7952 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N56W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech A35 (serial D-2043, cancelled April 29, 1970). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N56W: Accident on July 14, 1998 at Pontiac, MI: 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 190 · operated under 091
improper procedures used during the replacement of the landing gear which resulted in pitting and corrosion of the gear spring.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI98LA249 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
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