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Cessna R172K
N488RA is a Cessna R172K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to West Bottoms Properties INC, a corporation in Iola, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 28, 2022.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- R172K · all R172Ks and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna R172 Hawk XP family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- R1722539
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-360-K · 195 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 76 mph
- Transponder code
- A607C9 (octal 51403711)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 30, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 30, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 28, 2022
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01151531
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- West Bottoms Properties INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 394
Iola, KS 66749-0394
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.
Connections how N488RA links to the rest of the register
- Cessna R172 Hawk XP 758 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-360-K 9 aircraft with this engine series · 195 hp
- West Bottoms Properties INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Iola, KS 7 aircraft registered in this town
- Allen County · K88
- Kansas 5,738 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna R172 Hawk XP 32 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna R172 Hawk XP 91 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna R172 Hawk XP 341 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-360-K 20 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-360-K 26 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N488RA, 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 West Bottoms Properties INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 30, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 28, 2022, 45 years after the 1977 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial R1722539 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N488RA 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N488RA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data