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N6983X

Cessna 172B

Valid Florida

N6983X is a Cessna 172B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Optivol CORP, a corporation in Miami, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 15, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 31, 1960.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172B · all 172Bs and related versions
Serial number
17247883
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1960
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A94B45 (octal 52245505)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 15, 2023
Expires
May 31, 2030
Last FAA action
May 25, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · October 31, 1960
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00280477

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Optivol CORP
Type
Corporation
Address
14997 SW 59Th St
Miami, FL 33193-2057

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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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N6983X, 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 Optivol CORP, a corporation, certificate issued May 15, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated October 31, 1960, consistent with the 1960 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17247883 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N6983X 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N6983X. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 September 30, 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