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N404SW

Cessna 172I

Valid Tennessee

N404SW is a Cessna 172I, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sale Creek, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 15, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 28, 2004. 1 document is on file: loan release.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172I · all 172Is and related versions
Serial number
17256702
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1968
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A4BD22 (octal 51136442)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 15, 2023
Expires
June 30, 2030
Last FAA action
June 15, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · May 28, 2004
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00302793

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wood Roger W
Type
Individual
Address
15636 May Rd
Sale Creek, TN 37373-9784

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

2026-08-31Loan release

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N404SW, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Wood Roger W, an individual, certificate issued June 15, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 28, 2004, 36 years after the 1968 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17256702 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N404SW according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Loan release (August 31, 2026). [3]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N404SW: Accident on September 2, 2002 at Tucson, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

LAX02LA274Accident on September 2, 2002 at Tucson, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172I · operated under 091

the certified flight instructor's failure to maintain an adequate distance from a jet during taxi. A factor was the local/ground controller's failure to issue a safety alert or cautionary advisory to the pilot with regards to the jet blast of the departing Boeing 737.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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