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N5709R

Cessna 172F

Valid Iowa

N5709R is a Cessna 172F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Nick Monsen Trucking INC, a corporation in Buffalo Center, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 22, 2019 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 22, 1965.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172F · all 172Fs and related versions
Serial number
17253366
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1965
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A7520C (octal 51651014)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 22, 2019
Expires
August 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 25, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · July 22, 1965
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00120526

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Nick Monsen Trucking INC
Type
Corporation
Address
4683 400Th St
Buffalo Center, IA 50424-7618

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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 N5709R, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Nick Monsen Trucking INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 22, 2019, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 22, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17253366 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5709R according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5709R: Accident on April 17, 1994 at Arlington, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

LAX94LA192Accident on April 17, 1994 at Arlington, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172F · operated under 091

FAILURE OF THE CERTIFIED FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR TO PROPERLY SUPERVISE THE STUDENT PILOT AND PERFORM THE APPROPRIATE REMEDIAL ACTION BEFORE THE AIRPLANE DESCENDED TO AN ALTITUDE TOO LOW FOR RECOVERY. FACTORS WERE THE STUDENT PILOT'S HANDLING OF THE AIRPLANE WHICH RESULTED IN AN INADVERTENT STALL.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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