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N5781C

Cessna 170A

Valid Kansas

N5781C 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 Gardner, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 17, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
170A · all 170As and related versions
Serial number
19735
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
A76E9F (octal 51667237)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 17, 2023
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
April 11, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00198368

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sipple Ronald W JR
Type
Individual
Address
31186 W 166Th St
Gardner, KS 66063

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N5781C, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Sipple Ronald W JR, an individual, certificate issued February 17, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 19735 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5781C according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5781C: Accident on August 1, 1983 at Syracuse, KS: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

MKC83LA173Accident on August 1, 1983 at Syracuse, KS: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 170A · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC83LA173 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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