Cessna 172R
N17297 is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Van Bortel Aircraft INC, a corporation in Arlington, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 8, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172R · all 172Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17280140
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A1244E (octal 50222116)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 8, 1997
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00516651
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Van Bortel Aircraft INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 4912 S Collins St
Arlington, TX 76018-1135
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N17297, 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 Van Bortel Aircraft INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 8, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17280140 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N17297 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150L (serial 15073710, cancelled September 21, 1992). 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]
2 NTSB records under N17297: Accident on June 20, 1987 at East Lynne, MO: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on December 17, 1983 at Clinton, MO: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150L · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC87LA117 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC84LA039 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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