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N3809R

Cessna 172H

Valid Nebraska

N3809R is a Cessna 172H, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Central City, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 13, 2017 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 11, 1966.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172H · all 172Hs and related versions
Serial number
17255309
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1966
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A45EED (octal 51057355)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 13, 2017
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
October 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · October 11, 1966
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00450264

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Imhof Donald R
Type
Co-owned
Address
1909 26Th St
Central City, NE 68826-9756
Co-owners
Imhof Myra L

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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N3809R, 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 Imhof Donald R, a co-owned, certificate issued February 13, 2017, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 11, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17255309 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N3809R 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N3809R: Accident on July 31, 1986 at Albuquerque, NM: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

DEN86LA214Accident on July 31, 1986 at Albuquerque, NM: minor injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172H · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN86LA214 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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