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N3842V

Cessna 172M

Valid New York

N3842V is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1973. It has 4 seats. It is registered to N3842V LLC, an LLC in Wainscott, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 25, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 29, 1973.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172M · all 172Ms and related versions
Serial number
17262158
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1973
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
A46CD8 (octal 51066330)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 25, 2024
Expires
October 31, 2031
Last FAA action
October 25, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · August 29, 1973
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00360640

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
N3842V LLC
Type
LLC
Address
PO Box 19
Wainscott, NY 11975-0019

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.

Earlier use of this number 2

1988-12-16Beech 58 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1956-12-04Cessna 170A · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N3842V, 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 N3842V LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 25, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated August 29, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17262158 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N3842V was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech 58 (serial TH1235, cancelled December 16, 1988); Cessna 170A (serial 18729, cancelled December 4, 1956). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N3842V. 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