Cessna 172M
N13221 is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1973. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Cm3 LLC, an LLC in North Las Vegas, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 16, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 21, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17262586
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A08557 (octal 50102527)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 16, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 16, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 21, 1973
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00021380
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cm3 LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2634 Airport Dr Ste 101
North Las Vegas, NV 89032-4317
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N13221, 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.
Valid registration to Cm3 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 16, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 21, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17262586 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N13221 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech UC-45J (serial 51253, cancelled May 11, 1970). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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]
1 NTSB record under N13221: Accident on November 10, 2025 at Poleta, CA: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172M · operated under 091
On November 10, 2025, at about 1515 Pacific standard time, Cessna 172M, N13221, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Poleta, California. A pilot-rated passenger and a passenger were fatally injured, and the pilot was seriously injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. On the day of the accident, the pilot rented the airplane from a flight school at North Las Vegas Airport (VGT), Las Vegas, Nevada. According to the flight school, the airplane was fueled to capacity. ADS-B data indicated the airplane subseq…
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- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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