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N6627A

Cessna 172

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesCalifornia

N6627A is a Cessna 172, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Springville, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 1990 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 8, 1956.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172 · all 172s and related versions
Serial number
28727
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1956
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A8BEF5 (octal 52137365)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
July 30, 1990
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 8, 1956
FAA region
Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00542946

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mcgowan Dan J
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
PO Box 985
Springville, CA 93265

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N6627A, 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 Mcgowan Dan J, an individual, certificate issued July 30, 1990, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated May 8, 1956, consistent with the 1956 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28727 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N6627A 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N6627A. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 September 30, 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