Cessna 172L
N3SF is a Cessna 172L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Glenville, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 19, 1997 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 26, 1970. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172L · all 172Ls and related versions
- Serial number
- 17259442
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A31C36 (octal 50616066)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 19, 1997
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 26, 1970
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00140963
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Powers Gilford L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4864 Ridge Road
Glenville, NY 12302
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
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N3SF, 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 Powers Gilford L, an individual, certificate issued May 19, 1997, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 26, 1970, consistent with the 1970 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17259442 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3SF according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 9, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3SF. 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