Cessna 172N
N3HQ is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Chesapeake Searey LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 23, 2018 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 20, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17269154
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A31B5E (octal 50615536)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 23, 2018
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- February 13, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 20, 1977
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00720953
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chesapeake Searey LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 108 W 13Th St
Wilmington, DE 19801-1145
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 · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3HQ, 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 Chesapeake Searey LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 23, 2018, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17269154 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3HQ 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 N3HQ: Accident on October 31, 2021 at Stevensville, MD: 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
An in-flight collision with a bird during initial climb.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA22LA044 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