{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1973-12-13","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-02-28","city":"WATERLOO","country_code":"US","county_code":"133","cruise_speed_mph":108,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41514","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O&VO-360 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-02-28","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2073708","mode_s_code":"50757111","mode_s_hex":"A3DE49","model":"177B","n_number":"N34860","name":"PITTMAN CHARLES R TRUSTEE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"ACME","damage":"SUBS","date":"1990-01-20","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CHI90LA071","probable_cause":"THE STUDENT PILOT MISJUDGED DISTANCE AND ALTITUDE TO THE RUNWAY, AND THE INSTRUCTOR PILOT (CFI) FAILED TO ATTAIN REMEDIAL ACTION, WHICH RESULTED IN THEIR FAILURE TO ATTAIN THE PROPER TOUCHDOWN POINT. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE CFI'S LACK OF EXPERIENCE IN THE TYPE OF OPERATION AND THE SNOWBANK.","registration":"N34860","state":"MI","summary":"Accident on January 20, 1990 at Acme, MI: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"PITTMAN LYNN D TRUSTEE","plain_english":"N34860 is a Cessna 177B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Waterloo, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 13, 1973.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Pittman Charles R Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued February 28, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 13, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17702051 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N34860 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Culver LFA (serial 270, cancelled June 26, 1945). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N34860: Accident on January 20, 1990 at Acme, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":4,"serial_number":"17702051","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"319 HARTMANN ST","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00192673","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N34860","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1973,"zip":"622981711"}