Cessna 172L
N4297Q is a Cessna 172L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Paradise, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 18, 2022 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 26, 1971.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172L · all 172Ls and related versions
- Serial number
- 17260197
- 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
- A5206A (octal 51220152)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 18, 2022
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 26, 1971
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00081994
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Critchfield David P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5700 Tamarack Way
Paradise, CA 95969-5371
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N4297Q, 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 Critchfield David P, an individual, certificate issued October 18, 2022, expires October 31, 2029. 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 17260197 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4297Q according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N4297Q. 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