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N9968A

Cessna 170A

Valid Alabama

N9968A 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 Odenville, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 6, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 10, 1957.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
170A · all 170As and related versions
Serial number
19328
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
ADEC5E (octal 53366136)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 6, 2020
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · June 10, 1957
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00503340

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Pickett Steven M
Type
Co-owned
Address
231 Sabra Dr
Odenville, AL 35120-4737
Co-owners
Pickett Sabra K

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.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N9968A, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Pickett Steven M, a co-owned, certificate issued August 6, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 10, 1957, 7 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 19328 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N9968A according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N9968A: Accident on August 7, 1998 at Pell City, AL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ATL98LA106Accident on August 7, 1998 at Pell City, AL: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 170 · operated under 091

The pilot's improper use of the flight controls during a crosswind landing and the improper recovery from a bounce resulted in the collapse of the right main landing gear. A factor was the right crosswind.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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