Cessna 172N
N422B is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 1, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 17, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17268342
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A50326 (octal 51201446)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 1, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 17, 1976
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00881817
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Preston Richard K Trustee
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4968 Arroyo Chamisa Rd NE
Albuquerque, NM 87111-3718
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N422B, 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 Preston Richard K Trustee, an individual, certificate issued July 1, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. 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 17268342 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N422B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerospatiale AS350B (serial 2295, cancelled June 6, 1994). 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]
1 NTSB record under N422B: Accident on December 10, 2022 at Socorro, NM: no 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 172N · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard bounced landing and loss of control in gusting wind.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR23LA062 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