Cessna 172M
N293CA is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1975. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Choice Aviation LLC, an LLC in Hamilton, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 17, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17266259
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A300D2 (octal 50600322)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 15, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 17, 1975
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00514340
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Choice Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 528 Airport Rd
Hamilton, MT 59840-8803
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N293CA, 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 Choice Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 15, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 17, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17266259 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N293CA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 412 (serial 33005, cancelled November 20, 2012). 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 N293CA. 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