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N3697S

Cessna 172E

N3697S is a Cessna 172E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1963. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Big Pine, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 28, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 27, 1963.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172E · all 172Es and related versions
Serial number
17250897
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1963
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A43119 (octal 51030431)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 28, 2022
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · November 27, 1963
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00783363

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rossi Michael
Type
Co-owned
Address
PO Box 460
Big Pine, CA 93513-0460
Co-owners
Hannon Yvette M

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N3697S, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Rossi Michael, a co-owned, certificate issued November 28, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated November 27, 1963, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17250897 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N3697S according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N3697S. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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