Cessna 172N
N4971F 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 an individual in Cottonwood, California. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 21, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17273110
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A62C9A (octal 51426232)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- July 9, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 21, 1979
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00180735
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 22043 Hatcher Dr
Cottonwood, CA 96022-7611
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N4971F, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 21, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17273110 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4971F 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 N4971F. 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