Cessna 172R
N3523R 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 Aviator Air Flight School LLC, an LLC in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 22, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172R · all 172Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17281016
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A3EF0C (octal 50767414)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 22, 2001
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00993784
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aviator Air Flight School LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5838A Darling St
Houston, TX 77007-1004
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N3523R, 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 Aviator Air Flight School LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 22, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 22, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17281016 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3523R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech A23 (serial M682, cancelled March 24, 1994). 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 N3523R: Accident on January 17, 1993 at Mebane, NC: serious injuries, destroyed. 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: Beech 23 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S MISMANAGEMENT OF THE FUEL SUPPLY WHICH RESULTED IN FUEL STARVATION TO THE ENGINE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL93LA052 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