Cessna 170B
N8074A 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 Franklin, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 11, 1997 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 6, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 170B · all 170Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 20926
- 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
- AAFEC3 (octal 52577303)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 11, 1997
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · June 6, 1972
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00650482
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eshelman Douglas W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3025 Farmhouse Dr
Franklin, TN 37067-1483
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.
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The public federal record on N8074A, 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 Eshelman Douglas W, an individual, certificate issued March 11, 1997, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 6, 1972, 20 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 20926 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8074A according to the deregistered file. [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 N8074A: Accident on April 22, 1990 at Englewood, CO: 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 170B · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE DURING THE LANDING. THE CROSSWIND CONDITION WAS A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN90LA096 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