Cessna 170A
N9768A is a Cessna 170A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1950. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Beachy Benjamin D, a partnership in Whittington, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 7, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 170A · all 170As and related versions
- Serial number
- 19409
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C145 SERIES · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1950
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AD9D60 (octal 53316540)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 28, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · August 7, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00853890
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Beachy Benjamin D
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 14032 Shilo Cemetery Rd
Whittington, IL 62897-1230 - Co-owners
- Beacy Jacob S
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 N9768A, 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 Beachy Benjamin D, a partnership, certificate issued January 28, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 7, 1956, 6 years after the 1950 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 19409 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9768A 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 N9768A: Accident on February 11, 2011 at Baker Lake, WA: minor 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
The pilot's encounter with soft terrain during an attempted takeoff from a dry lake bed.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data