Textron Aviation Inc 172S
N38RA is a Textron Aviation Inc 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2024. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Ab Prop Plane II LLC, an LLC in Metairie, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 21, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 20, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S13272
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A45A69 (octal 51055151)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 21, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 21, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 20, 2024
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01461255
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ab Prop Plane II LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3838 N Causeway Blvd Ste 3335
Metairie, LA 70002-8361
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N38RA, 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.
Valid registration to Ab Prop Plane II LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 21, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 20, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S13272 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N38RA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Raytheon Aircraft Company C90GT (serial LJ-1754, cancelled February 26, 2018). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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]
1 NTSB record under N38RA: Accident on July 4, 2004 at Pottstown, PA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172C · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate flare, which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC04LA165 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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