Cessna 177RG
N98SW is a Cessna 177RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ventura, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 15, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 177RG · all 177RGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 177RG1090
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 120 mph
- Transponder code
- ADAA70 (octal 53325160)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 31, 2014
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 15, 1976
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00912832
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gankas Christopher
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6996 Vista Del Rincon Dr
Ventura, CA 93001-9783
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 N98SW, 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 Gankas Christopher, an individual, certificate issued July 31, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 15, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 177RG1090 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N98SW 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 N98SW: Accident on April 5, 2020 at Santa Paula, CA: 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 177RG · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to ensure adequate fuel onboard for the planned flight, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion.
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