Cessna 172N
N4789G is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Crossflot Aviation INC, a corporation in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 13, 2007 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 28, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17273343
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A5E26C (octal 51361154)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 13, 2007
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- November 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 28, 1979
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00280095
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Crossflot Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1835 River Rd
Shepherdstown, WV 25443-5064
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 N4789G, 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 Crossflot Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 13, 2007, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 28, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17273343 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4789G 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 N4789G: Accident on April 1, 2005 at San Jose, CA: 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 172N · operated under 091
the student pilot's misjudged landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX05CA128 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