Cessna 172P
N3985 is a Cessna 172P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Nighthawk N8231G LLC, an LLC in Pompano Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 7, 2024.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps 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
- 17275841
- 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 · Lycoming O-320-D2J · 160 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A4A388 (octal 51121610)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 11, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- April 8, 2026
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 7, 2024
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00362736
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nighthawk N8231G 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
- 2680 NE 24Th St
Pompano Beach, FL 33064-7701
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N3985 links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,691 registered
- Cessna 72,676 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-320-D2J 96 aircraft with this engine series · 160 hp
- Nighthawk N8231G LLC 8 aircraft in the fleet
- Pompano Beach, FL 122 aircraft registered in this town
- Pompano Beach Airpark · PMP
- Florida 21,705 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 Lycoming O-320-D2J 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320-D2J 291 reports since 1995
- Where N3985 is now · Last seen today at 12:05 pm.
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The public federal record on N3985, 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 Nighthawk N8231G LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 11, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 7, 2024, 42 years after the 1982 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17275841 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3985 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Swallow Airplane Mfg Co SWALLOW LAND PLANE (serial 2601, cancelled August 15, 1939). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3985. 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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data