Cessna 172L
N3985Q 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 an individual in Golden Valley, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 14, 1971. 1 document is on file: disclaimer.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172L · all 172Ls and related versions
- Serial number
- 17260085
- 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
- A4A397 (octal 51121627)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 14, 2022
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 14, 1971
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00930784
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Arnold Ralph F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1822 S Gleeson Rd
Golden Valley, AZ 86413-6562
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 1
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The public federal record on N3985Q, 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 Arnold Ralph F, an individual, certificate issued September 14, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 14, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17260085 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3985Q according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Disclaimer (September 18, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3985Q. 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