Cessna 172P
N3KV is a Cessna 172P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Airmax Charters LLC, an LLC in Lake Worth, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 18, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 11, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17274768
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A31B95 (octal 50615625)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 18, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 11, 1981
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00052845
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Airmax Charters LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 26
Lake Worth, FL 33460-0026
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3KV, 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 Airmax Charters LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 18, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 11, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17274768 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3KV was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Vermeys Kenneth R T-BIRD II (serial 001KV, cancelled March 29, 2004). 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]
2 NTSB records under N3KV: Accident on May 26, 2023 at Lake Worth, FL: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Accident on November 10, 2001 at Sherburn, MN: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
Maintenance personnel’s failure to detect the corroded aileron cable during recent inspections, which resulted in the separation of the aileron control cable and a subsequent loss of airplane control during takeoff.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA23FA247 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Vermeys T-Bird II · operated under 091
The loss of engine power for undetermined reasons, and the pilot's failure to maintain airspeed which resulted in an inadvertent stall/spin.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI02LA037 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