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N8027A

Cessna 170B

N8027A is a Cessna 170B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1952. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Smithwick, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 11, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated January 23, 1956.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
170B · all 170Bs and related versions
Serial number
20879
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C145 SERIES · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1952
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
AAEC99 (octal 52566231)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 11, 2023
Expires
October 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 11, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · January 23, 1956
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00440632

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Woodbury William L
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 125
Smithwick, SD 57782-0125

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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8027A, 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 Woodbury William L, an individual, certificate issued October 11, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 23, 1956, 4 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20879 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8027A 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 N8027A. 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