Cessna 170A
N9130A is a Cessna 170A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1949. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Grants, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 5, 2000 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 19, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 170A · all 170As and related versions
- Serial number
- 18889
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C145 SERIES · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1949
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- ACA429 (octal 53122051)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 5, 2000
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · November 19, 1955
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00865390
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kelsey Keith R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 848
Grants, NM 87020-0848
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 N9130A, 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 Kelsey Keith R, an individual, certificate issued May 5, 2000, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 19, 1955, 6 years after the 1949 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 18889 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9130A 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 N9130A: Accident on February 23, 1990 at Gallup, NM: 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 170A · operated under 091
IMPROPER OPERATION OF THE ENGINE DURING PREFLIGHT PREPARATION, WHICH RESULTED IN OVERHEATING OF THE ENGINE AND DAMAGE TO INTERNAL COMPONENTS.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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