Cessna 172RG
N6394V 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 Rice Aviation, a corporation in Maddock, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 30, 2012 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 21, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172RG · all 172RGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 172RG0656
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A86223 (octal 52061043)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 30, 2012
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 21, 1980
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00052156
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rice Aviation
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3556 52Nd Ave NE
Maddock, ND 58348-9628
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N6394V, 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 Rice Aviation, a corporation, certificate issued April 30, 2012, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 21, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172RG0656 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6394V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney M20F (serial 22-1307, cancelled May 14, 1976). 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]
1 NTSB record under N6394V: Accident on April 13, 1995 at Tulsa, OK: 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 RG · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S IMPROPER EMERGENCY PROCEDURE PREVENTING EMERGENCY GEAR EXTENSION. A FACTOR WAS THE LOSS OF ELECTRICAL ALTERNATOR POWER FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW95LA168 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