Cessna 170A
N9793A 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 co-owned owners in South Bend, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 18, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 18, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 170A · all 170As and related versions
- Serial number
- 19254
- 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
- ADA7D6 (octal 53323726)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 18, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 18, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00183840
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Coulter Robert
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1738 Wilber St
South Bend, IN 46628-3256 - Co-owners
- Walatka Keith
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 N9793A, 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 Coulter Robert, a co-owned, certificate issued October 18, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 18, 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 19254 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9793A 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]
2 NTSB records under N9793A: Accident on July 4, 2024 at Dowagiac, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 6, 2009 at Aurora, IL: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 170 · operated under 091
The pilot and flight instructor’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll, which resulted in a ground loop with the left main landing gear axle failing, a runway excursion, and impact with the ground.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 170A · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing.
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