Cessna 170

The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. The original 1948 170 had fabric-covered wings; the 170A and 170B are all-metal. The FAA has issued 16 airworthiness directives (orders that owners must comply with) that name this model, most of them about engine. Operators and repair shops have filed 60 failure reports with the FAA since 1995, 3 of them in the last ten years: about 0.1 a year for every 100 aircraft on the register; the system most often named is engine. 293 approved modifications exist for it, the most by Del-Air.

Sources: the FAA's type certificate data sheets, airworthiness directives, supplemental type certificates, special conditions and special airworthiness information bulletins (Dynamic Regulatory System), and the FAA's service difficulty reports. A failure report is what an operator or repair station chose to file; the counts show reporting as much as reliability, and larger and commercial fleets report more. How the systems are grouped.