Cessna 172S
N497TC is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Pinnacle Aviation Services INC, a corporation in Encinitas, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 28, 2005 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 13, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S9870
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A62BC5 (octal 51425705)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 28, 2005
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · July 13, 2005
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00166549
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pinnacle Aviation Services INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1401 Vanessa Cir
Encinitas, CA 92024-2439
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 N497TC, 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 Pinnacle Aviation Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 28, 2005, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 13, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9870 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N497TC 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 N497TC: Accident on July 30, 2017 at Carlsbad, 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 172 · operated under 091
The student pilot’s improper landing flare in gusting wind conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA17CA470 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data