Cessna 172
N3984F is a Cessna 172, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cheboygan, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 14, 2020 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 6, 1958.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172 · all 172s and related versions
- Serial number
- 36884
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1958
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A4A36B (octal 51121553)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 14, 2020
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 6, 1958
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00100834
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Balbaugh Donald E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8750 Church Rd
Cheboygan, MI 49721-9027
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 N3984F, 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 Balbaugh Donald E, an individual, certificate issued October 14, 2020, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated June 6, 1958, consistent with the 1958 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36884 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3984F 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 N3984F: Accident on May 27, 2026 at Naubinway, MI: minor 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 172 · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper engine power application during the landing flare, which resulted in a hard, bounced landing and nose over.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN26LA200 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