Cessna 172E
N3779S 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 Shawver Aviation LLC, an LLC in Knoxville, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 13, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 16, 1963.
Where is it now Last seen Friday at 3:27 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172E · all 172Es and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 172 Skyhawk family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 17250979
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1963
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A45170 (octal 51050560)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 13, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 13, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 16, 1963
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00080094
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shawver Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1545 Highway 14
Knoxville, IA 50138-8634
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.
Connections how N3779S links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,691 registered
- Cessna 72,677 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental O-300 series 6,625 aircraft with this engine series · 145 hp
- Shawver Aviation LLC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Knoxville, IA 28 aircraft registered in this town
- Knoxville Municipal · OXV
- Iowa 4,512 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 4,222 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 857 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental O-300 series 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental O-300 series 38 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Filter Adapter, backed out · 2025-07-14
- Where N3779S is now · Last seen Friday at 3:27 pm.
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The public federal record on N3779S, 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 Shawver Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 13, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 16, 1963, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17250979 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3779S 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3779S. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data