Cessna 172K
N46643 is a Cessna 172K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1968. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Volunteer State Aviation LLC, an LLC in College Grove, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 4, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172K · all 172Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 17257406
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A5B2E5 (octal 51331345)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 9, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 9, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 4, 1968
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00203274
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Volunteer State Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7525 Rabbit Hill Ln
College Grove, TN 37046-9294
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N46643, 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 Volunteer State Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 9, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 4, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17257406 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N46643 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Interstate S-1B1 (serial 40, cancelled November 18, 1955). 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 N46643: Accident on April 6, 2011 at Bar Harbor, ME: 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 172K · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate landing flare while landing with a gusting wind, which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA11CA333 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