Cessna 172L
N7257Q 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 an individual in Essexville, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 7, 2011 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 5, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172L · all 172Ls and related versions
- Serial number
- 17260557
- 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
- A9B97B (octal 52334573)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 7, 2011
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 5, 1972
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00591547
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Henry C III
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 891 N Jones Rd
Essexville, MI 48732-8614
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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N7257Q, 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 Smith Henry C III, an individual, certificate issued February 7, 2011, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 5, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17260557 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7257Q according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N7257Q. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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