The U.S. aircraft register, updated daily · Carbon Free Flight by 2050
Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 2, 2026
N4253Q

Cessna 172L

Valid Indiana

N4253Q is a Cessna 172L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Frog Av LLC, an LLC in Brownstown, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2004 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 9, 1971.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172L · all 172Ls and related versions
Serial number
17260153
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1971
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A51102 (octal 51210402)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 22, 2004
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · October 9, 1971
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00441924

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Frog Av LLC
Type
LLC
Address
1438 E State Road 250
Brownstown, IN 47220-9666

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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N4253Q, 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 Frog Av LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 22, 2004, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 9, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17260153 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4253Q according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N4253Q. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 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