Cessna 172P
N53630 is a Cessna 172P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Arlington Flight Services INC, a corporation in Arlington, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 2019 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 17, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17274789
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A6C991 (octal 51544621)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 1, 2019
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 17, 1981
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00072895
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Arlington Flight Services INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 18810 59Th Dr NE Bldg 44A
Arlington, WA 98223-7833
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 N53630, 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 Arlington Flight Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 1, 2019, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 17, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17274789 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N53630 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 N53630: Accident on July 19, 1998 at Seattle, WA: 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 172P · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the aircraft. Related factors were the student pilot's lack of total experience, and airport signs in the accident area.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA98LA144 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