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N673MA

Cessna 172R

Valid Illinois

N673MA is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Lewis University, a corporation in Romeoville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 12, 2000 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 9, 1999.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172R · all 172Rs and related versions
Serial number
17280741
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1999
Transponder code
A8E7F1 (octal 52163761)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 12, 2000
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 18, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · August 9, 1999
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00865742

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lewis University
Type
Corporation
Address
1 University Pkwy
Romeoville, IL 60446-2200

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N673MA, 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 Lewis University, a corporation, certificate issued September 12, 2000, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 9, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17280741 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N673MA 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

2 NTSB records under N673MA: Incident on June 7, 1993 at Anchorage, AK: no injuries, minor damage. Incident on October 8, 1992 at Anchorage, AK: no injuries. 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 2

ANC93IA084Incident on June 7, 1993 at Anchorage, AK: no injuries, minor damage.serial on NTSB record: 23124

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 737-200 · operated under 091

THE FAILURE OF THE NOSE LANDING GEAR INNER CYLINDER FROM AN OVERLOAD/OVERSTRESS CONDITION.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC93IA084 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

ANC93IA007Incident on October 8, 1992 at Anchorage, AK: no injuries.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing 737-200 · operated under 121

IMPROPER ATC CLEARANCE INSTRUCTIONS BY THE APPROACH CONTROLLER, RESULTING IN A FAILURE TO INSURE SAFE SEPARATION BETWEEN AN AIRPLANE IN VISUAL CONDITIONS WITH AN AIRPLANE IN INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS ON CONVERGING COURSES. A FACTOR WHICH CONTRIBUTED WAS INSUFFICIENT INFORMATION PROVIDED TO BOTH PILOTS BY THE CONTROLLER.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC93IA007 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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