Cessna 172R
N3510A is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Crotts Aircraft Service INC, a corporation in Dodge City, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 29, 2003 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 9, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172R · all 172Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17281042
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A3EADD (octal 50765335)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 29, 2003
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 9, 2001
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00273894
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Crotts Aircraft Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- Municipal Airport
Dodge City, KS 67801
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 N3510A, 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 Crotts Aircraft Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 29, 2003, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 9, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17281042 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3510A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22-135 (serial 22-1782, cancelled June 2, 1976). 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 N3510A: Accident on September 26, 2002 at Greenwood, IL: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172R · operated under 091
The CFI's poor inflight planning/decision to allow the airplane to get to too low of an altitude to assure a safe recovery from the simulated forced landing. Factors associated with the accident were the student pilot's delay initiating the go around and the corn crop which the airplane contacted.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI02LA295 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