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N77KB

Cessna 172

Valid Montana

N77KB is a Cessna 172, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1957. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Bears Tooth Resources LLC, an LLC in Red Lodge, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 16, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 26, 1957.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172 · all 172s and related versions
Serial number
36214
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1957
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
AA6791 (octal 52463621)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 16, 2020
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · September 26, 1957
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00983447

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bears Tooth Resources LLC
Type
LLC
Address
PO Box 2427
Red Lodge, MT 59068-2427

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 N77KB, 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 Bears Tooth Resources LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 16, 2020, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated September 26, 1957, consistent with the 1957 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36214 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N77KB 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 N77KB. 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 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