Cessna 172H
N3254C is a Cessna 172H, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Atmore, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 18, 2020 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 20, 1967.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172H · all 172Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17256156
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A383CA (octal 50701712)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 18, 2020
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 20, 1967
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00201933
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Coon Vernon Ray
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 74 Darryl Dawe Ln
Atmore, AL 36502-4844
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 N3254C, 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 Coon Vernon Ray, an individual, certificate issued November 18, 2020, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 20, 1967, consistent with the 1967 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17256156 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3254C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech E35 (serial D3919, cancelled January 31, 1980). 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]
2 NTSB records under N3254C: Accident on July 9, 2025 at Century, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 12, 1995 at Manteo, NC: 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 172H · operated under 091
On July 9, 2025, about 1820 central daylight time, a Cessna 172, N3254C, was involved in an accident near Century, Florida. The pilot and the passenger were not injured. The flight was conducted as a 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot departed the Atmore Municipal Airport (0R1), Atmore, Alabama, about 1800 for a local flight. About 20 minutes later, while cruising at 1,500 ft mean sea level (msl), the engine suddenly stopped producing power. The pilot was unable to restart the engine and made a forced landing to a peanut field. When the airplane touched down, it …
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA25LA261 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172H · operated under 091
The pilot's improper in-flight decision to touchdown at the mid-field point of the runway.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL95LA157 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