Sky DutyCessna 175: US Fleet Statistics
Cessna 175 — commonly known as the Skylark
As of the FAA registry snapshot on July 11, 2026, there are 906 Cessna 175 aircraft with a valid US registration — ranking it #52 among all US civil aircraft model families by registration count. Every figure on this page is computed directly from the public FAA aircraft registry.
How many Cessna 175s are registered in the United States?
The FAA aircraft registry lists 906 Cessna 175 aircraft with a valid registration as of July 11, 2026. The Cessna 175 is a single-engine airplane, and this family groups every registered variant of the Cessna 175 together. It ranks #52 by registration count among the model families tracked in this dataset.
These counts come from the FAA MASTER file and reflect aircraft with an active “valid” registration status. To pull up the current owner, based state, and registration dates for a specific airframe, use the free FAA tail number lookup. To browse every model in this dataset, see the US aircraft fleet statistics index.
Cessna 175 registrations by state
Texas has the most registered Cessna 175 aircraft, with 83. The table below shows the ten states with the most Cessna 175 registrations by the owner address on file with the FAA.
| Rank | State | Registered | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas (TX) | 83 | 9.2% |
| 2 | California (CA) | 76 | 8.4% |
| 3 | Alaska (AK) | 70 | 7.7% |
| 4 | Washington (WA) | 52 | 5.7% |
| 5 | Florida (FL) | 36 | 4.0% |
| 6 | Oregon (OR) | 31 | 3.4% |
| 7 | Arizona (AZ) | 30 | 3.3% |
| 8 | Colorado (CO) | 29 | 3.2% |
| 9 | Minnesota (MN) | 28 | 3.1% |
| 10 | Kansas (KS) | 26 | 2.9% |
Share is of all 906 registered Cessna 175 aircraft. Based on FAA registered-owner state; not all aircraft are based where they are registered.
How old are registered Cessna 175s?
The median registered Cessna 175 was manufactured in 1959. Most were built between 1958 and 1960, and manufacture years across the registered fleet span roughly 1958 to 1962. A manufacture year is on file for 702 of the 906 registered aircraft.
Model year is one of the fields Sky Duty tracks on every tail alongside Hobbs and tach times. See how the app handles aircraft and fleet records.
Cessna 175 engine, seats, and aircraft class
The typical registered Cessna 175 is a single-engine airplane with a single piston engine, configured with 4 seats. The values below are the most common across all registered Cessna 175 aircraft in the FAA data; individual airframes vary by variant and configuration.
- Aircraft class
- Fixed Wing Single-Engine
- Engines
- 1 × Piston
- Typical seats
- 4
- Manufacturer
- Cessna
Data: FAA Releasable Aircraft Database (registry.faa.gov), snapshot 2026-07-11. Counts reflect US civil aircraft with a valid FAA registration (status codes V, M, and T). Variants of the Cessna 175 are grouped into a single model family. Manufacture-year bounds use the 1st and 99th percentiles to exclude data-entry outliers in the FAA year field. Figures update when the registry is re-imported.
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