Cessna 172H
N3748F is a Cessna 172H, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Duluth, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 27, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 30, 1966.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172H · all 172Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17255243
- 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
- A4461D (octal 51043035)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 27, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 27, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 30, 1966
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00830024
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcdonald David R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5381 Samuelson Rd
Duluth, MN 55811-9789
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.
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The public federal record on N3748F, 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 Mcdonald David R, an individual, certificate issued April 27, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. 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 17255243 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3748F 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 N3748F: Accident on May 5, 1997 at Westminister, MD: no 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: Cessna 172H · operated under 091
The pilot misjudged landing distance on the runway and his failure to perform a go-around.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for IAD97LA072 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