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N7230Q

Cessna 172L

N7230Q is a Cessna 172L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Arcade Flying Club INC, a corporation in El Dorado Hills, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 2, 1979 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 20, 1972.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172L · all 172Ls and related versions
Serial number
17260530
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1972
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A9B118 (octal 52330430)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 2, 1979
Expires
May 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · March 20, 1972
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00661437

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Arcade Flying Club INC
Type
Corporation
Address
C/O James Curtis
562 Torero Way
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762-3542

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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 N7230Q, 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 Arcade Flying Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 2, 1979, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 20, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17260530 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7230Q 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 N7230Q. 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 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