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N3824S

Cessna 172E

Valid Oregon

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.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172E · all 172Es and related versions
Serial number
17251024
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
A465AD (octal 51062655)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 2, 2026
Expires
September 30, 2033
Last FAA action
September 2, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · January 9, 1964
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00630304

Owner as the FAA publishes it

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

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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 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

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 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 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