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N52881

Cessna 177RG

N52881 is a Cessna 177RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Cardinal Air, a corporation in Gold Hill, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2014 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 5, 1978.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
177RG
Serial number
177RG1298
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D · 200 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1977
Cruising speed
120 mph
Transponder code
A6AA30 (octal 51525060)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 26, 2014
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · January 5, 1978
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00132605

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cardinal Air
Type
Corporation
Address
190 Aviation Ln
Gold Hill, NC 28071-8700

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1949-03-02Consolidated Vultee SNV-1 · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data