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A Cessna 172 Skyhawk, the same model family as N3824S
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N3824S

Cessna 172E

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesOregon

N3824S 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 Phelps Aero CO LLC, an LLC in Salem, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 2, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 9, 1964. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172E · all 172Es and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The 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
17251024
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
Seats
4
Year built
1963
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A465AD (octal 51062655)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
September 2, 2026
Expires
September 30, 2033
Last FAA action
September 2, 2026
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 · January 9, 1964
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00630304

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Phelps Aero CO 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
3345 Argyle Dr S
Salem, OR 97302-4628

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 1

2026-10-07Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Connections how N3824S links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Salem, OR 255 aircraft registered in this town
  • Mcnary Field · SLE
  • Oregon 7,020 aircraft registered
Airworthiness
Live

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The public federal record on N3824S, 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 Phelps Aero CO LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 2, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated January 9, 1964, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17251024 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N3824S according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 7, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N3824S. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data