Cessna 172N
N494AM is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Osprey Holding Company LLC, an LLC in Foley, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 19, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 30, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17269969
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A61F00 (octal 51417400)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 19, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 19, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 30, 2022
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00432227
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Osprey Holding Company LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 510 Airport Dr
Foley, AL 36535-1552
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 N494AM, 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 Osprey Holding Company LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 19, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 30, 2022, 44 years after the 1978 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 17269969 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N494AM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: S N I A S AS350D ASTAR (serial 1125, cancelled May 11, 2015). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N494AM. 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 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