Cessna 172E
N3950S is a Cessna 172E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Blue Sky Aviation Adventures LLC, an LLC in St George, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 5, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 10, 1964.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172E · all 172Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 17251150
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A497C5 (octal 51113705)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 5, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 10, 1964
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00650704
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blue Sky Aviation Adventures LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1130 W 2400 S
St George, UT 84770-6954
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.
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The public federal record on N3950S, 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 Blue Sky Aviation Adventures LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 5, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17251150 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3950S 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]
1 NTSB record under N3950S: Accident on March 21, 2004 at Raymond, WA: 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 172E · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll resulting in the aircraft nosing over. Incorrect remedial action and soft terrain were factors.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA04LA053 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data