Cessna 172RG
N5338V is a Cessna 172RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Friendswood, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 20, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172RG · all 172RGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 172RG0509
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A6BF16 (octal 51537426)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 17, 2021
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 20, 1980
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00632805
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Massie Patrick J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3302 Duke Ln
Friendswood, TX 77546-2216
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5338V, 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 Massie Patrick J, an individual, certificate issued December 17, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 20, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172RG0509 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5338V was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna T210L (serial 21060912, cancelled October 3, 1975); Hiller UH-12E (serial 2019, cancelled June 18, 1960). 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]
2 NTSB records under N5338V: Accident on April 3, 2022 at Pearland, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 20, 1993 at Fort Lauderdale, FL: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172RG · operated under 091
The flight instructor's failure to extend the landing gear and perform a before landing checklist.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN22LA169 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172RG · operated under 091
THE FAILURE OF THE LEFT MAIN GEAR PIVOT ASSEMBLY, RESULTING IN THE COLLAPSE OF THE LEFT MAIN LANDING GEAR DURING THE LANDING ROLLOUT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA93LA123 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