Cessna 172S
N24697 is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Ritton Air Company LLC, an LLC in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 6, 2015 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 20, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S10068
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A249FC (octal 50444774)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 6, 2015
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 20, 2005
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00216499
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ritton Air Company LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 8199 Mcnight Rd
Pittsburgh, PA 15237
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 N24697, 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 Ritton Air Company LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 6, 2015, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 20, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S10068 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N24697 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech C23 (serial M-1424, cancelled April 15, 2002). 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 N24697: Accident on October 28, 2001 at Athens, GA: serious 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech C23 · operated under 091
the pilot misjudged the ailment of the airplane on the active runway, inadvertently taking off from a parallel taxiway, and subsequently departing the hard surface into a 40 foot drop off. A factor in this accident was a dark night, and the pilot's total experience in night operations.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA02LA013 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