Cessna 172L
N3973Q is a Cessna 172L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Idg Elsa LLC, an LLC in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 19, 2018 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 29, 1971.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172L · all 172Ls and related versions
- Serial number
- 17260073
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A49F9A (octal 51117632)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 19, 2018
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 29, 1971
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00180874
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Idg Elsa LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2531 Jackson Ave Ste 179
Ann Arbor, MI 48103-3818
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 N3973Q, 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 Idg Elsa LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 19, 2018, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 29, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17260073 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3973Q 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3973Q. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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