Cessna 172E
N3663S is a Cessna 172E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Moville, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 27, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 8, 1963.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172E · all 172Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 17250863
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A42568 (octal 51022550)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 27, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 27, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 8, 1963
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00353263
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Franks Richard W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2829 200Th St
Moville, IA 51039-8121
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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 N3663S, 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 Franks Richard W, an individual, certificate issued August 27, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17250863 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3663S 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]
1 NTSB record under N3663S: Accident on May 31, 1991 at Grundy Center, IA: 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 172E · operated under 091
FAILURE BY OTHER MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL TO INSTALL A SAFETY WIRE AND FUEL EXHAUSTION.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI91LA178 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
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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