Cessna 172E
N3031U is a Cessna 172E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1963. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 8, 2019 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 22, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172E · all 172Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 17250631
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1963
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A32D05 (octal 50626405)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 8, 2019
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 22, 1976
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00661113
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sandstrom David E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1006 W 72Nd Ave
Anchorage, AK 99518-2132
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.
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The public federal record on N3031U, 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 Sandstrom David E, an individual, certificate issued October 8, 2019, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 22, 1976, 13 years after the 1963 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17250631 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3031U according to the deregistered file. [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 N3031U: Accident on May 1, 2019 at Wasilla, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 13, 1991 at Cantwell, AK: 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 172 · operated under 091
The flight instructor's failure to verify the fuel level, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion and a subsequent forced landing and collision with a power line pole. Contributing to the accident was the student pilot's inadequate preflight fuel planning.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
THE PILOT IN COMMAND'S POOR PREFLIGHT PLANNING/PREPARATION. A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT WAS THE SNOW COVERED RUNWAY.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data