Cessna 172L
N4303Q 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 Hobart Aviation INC, a corporation in Akron, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 25, 1971.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172L · all 172Ls and related versions
- Serial number
- 17260203
- 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
- A525EE (octal 51222756)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 31, 2020
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- October 8, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 25, 1971
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00312004
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hobart Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1600 Triplett Blvd Bldg B
Akron, OH 44306-3308
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.
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The public federal record on N4303Q, 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 Hobart Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 31, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 25, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17260203 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4303Q 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]
1 NTSB record under N4303Q: Accident on December 9, 2001 at Reedsburg, WI: 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 172L · operated under 091
The pilot inadvertently released the seat adjustment mechanism which resulted in the seat sliding back during takeoff, and his subsequent failure to maintain control of the airplane. A factor associated with the accident was the runway light control box, which the airplane contacted.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI02LA053 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data