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N4338Q

Cessna 172L

N4338Q 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 an individual in Salisbury, North Carolina. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 12, 1971. 2 documents are on file: 2 × bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172L · all 172Ls and related versions
Serial number
17260238
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
A531C2 (octal 51230702)

Registration

Status
Registration pending
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
September 5, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · November 12, 1971
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00742134

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Registration Pending
Type
Individual
Address
625 Shore Acres Rd
Salisbury, NC 28146-2568

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 2

2026-09-17Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)
2026-09-23Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N4338Q, 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.

ATTENTIONRegistration and identity

Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 12, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17260238 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4338Q according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

2 documents received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 17, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 23, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N4338Q. 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