Cessna 172N
N3477E is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Morey Airplane CO INC, a corporation in Middleton, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 15, 1981 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 26, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17271563
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A3DAA1 (octal 50755241)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 15, 1981
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 26, 1978
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00242633
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Morey Airplane CO INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 8300 Airport Rd
Middleton, WI 53562-1489
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 N3477E, 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 Morey Airplane CO INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 15, 1981, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 26, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17271563 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3477E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-6860, cancelled June 30, 1955). 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 N3477E: Accident on January 4, 2024 at Middleton, WI: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on February 12, 2021 at Prairie Du Sac, WI: 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 172N · operated under 091
The student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the takeoff roll.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24LA082 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172N · operated under 091
The student pilot’s loss of directional control during takeoff, which resulted in the collision with a snowbank. Contributing to the accident was the compacted snow conditions on the runway surface.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN21LA127 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