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N3849R

Cessna 172H

Valid Alaska

N3849R 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 Soldotna, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2006 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 14, 1966.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172H · all 172Hs and related versions
Serial number
17255349
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
A46DC9 (octal 51066711)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 9, 2006
Expires
August 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 25, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · October 14, 1966
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
00000404

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sims Charles H
Type
Co-owned
Address
35053 Inner Circle
Soldotna, AK 99669
Co-owners
Sims Emily 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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N3849R, 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 Sims Charles H, a co-owned, certificate issued February 9, 2006, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 14, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17255349 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N3849R 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 N3849R. 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