Cessna 172M
N3011F is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1974. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Gordon Air Services INC, a corporation in Miami, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 7, 1993 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 21, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17263447
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A3258A (octal 50622612)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 7, 1993
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · June 21, 1974
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00422445
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gordon Air Services INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 10622 SW 100Th St
Miami, FL 33176
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3011F, 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 Gordon Air Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 7, 1993, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated June 21, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17263447 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3011F was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-161 (serial 287916211, cancelled May 2, 1994); Cessna 182J (serial 18257111, cancelled January 10, 1969). 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 N3011F: Accident on November 21, 1993 at Northampton, MA: fatal, destroyed (4 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: Piper PA-28-161 · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL (ATC) FACILITY TO IDENTIFY AND PROVIDE THE REQUIRED TRAFFIC INFORMATION TO THE JUMP AIRCRAFT BEFORE RELEASE OF THE JUMPER(S). A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS: INADEQUATE VISUAL LOOKOUT BY THE PILOT OF THE JUMP AIRCRAFT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO94FA015 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