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N4696L

Cessna 172G

N4696L is a Cessna 172G, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Seattle, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 6, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated September 13, 1993.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172G · all 172Gs and related versions
Serial number
17254691
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1966
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A5BE3F (octal 51337077)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 6, 2025
Expires
December 31, 2032
Last FAA action
December 6, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · September 13, 1993
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00953374

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Koontz Marina M
Type
Co-owned
Address
8536 S 114Th St
Seattle, WA 98178-3322
Co-owners
Koontz Jeffrey T / Koontz Jake S

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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N4696L, 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 Koontz Marina M, a co-owned, certificate issued December 6, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 13, 1993, 27 years after the 1966 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17254691 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4696L 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N4696L: Accident on March 17, 1990 at Rio Hondo, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

FTW90LA084Accident on March 17, 1990 at Rio Hondo, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172G · operated under 091

OIL STARVATION INDUCED POWER LOSS DUE TO IMPROPER MAINTENANCE PROCEDURES. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WERE INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE INSPECTION AND THE SOFT TERRAIN IN WHICH THE FORCED LANDING WAS PERFORMED.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW90LA084 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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