Cessna 172R
N2438E is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Rainier Flight Service LLC, an LLC in Renton, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 14, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172R · all 172Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17280878
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A23E99 (octal 50437231)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 2, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 9, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 14, 2000
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00345750
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rainier Flight Service LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 300 Airport Way Ste 201
Renton, WA 98057-5368
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N2438E, 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 Rainier Flight Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 2, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 14, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17280878 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2438E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17271283, cancelled April 17, 1989); Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-6017, cancelled June 14, 1949). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2438E. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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