Cessna 172G
N3901L is a Cessna 172G, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to San Fernando Aviation LLC, an LLC in Van Nuys, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 27, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 3, 1966.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172G · all 172Gs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe 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
- 17254070
- 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
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A4854F (octal 51102517)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 27, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 27, 2025
- 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 · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 3, 1966
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00040584
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- San Fernando Aviation 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
- 7900 Balboa Blvd Apt M9
Van Nuys, CA 91406-1646
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.
Connections how N3901L links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,693 registered
- Cessna 72,678 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental O-300 series 6,625 aircraft with this engine series · 145 hp
- San Fernando Aviation LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Van Nuys, CA 162 aircraft registered in this town
- Van Nuys Airport · VNY
- California 28,279 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 4,222 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 857 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental O-300 series 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental O-300 series 38 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N3901L, 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 San Fernando Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 27, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17254070 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3901L according to the deregistered file. [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]
2 NTSB records under N3901L: Accident on February 18, 2025 at Oxnard, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 2, 2022 at Van Nuys, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
The student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing roll.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172G · operated under 091
The student pilot’s failure to maintain sufficient distance behind a jet airplane which, resulted in his loss of airplane control due to the jet airplane’s jet blast and the flight instructor’s delayed remedial action.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data