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Cessna 172M
N73020 is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Ajf Enterprises LLC, an LLC in Des Moines, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 22, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 7, 1976.
Where is it now Last seen Sunday at 12:42 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 172 Skyhawk family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 17267239
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A9CDC2 (octal 52346702)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 22, 2024
- Expires
- November 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- November 22, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 7, 1976
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00871707
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ajf Enterprises LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 226 Gepke Pkwy
Des Moines, IA 50320-6811
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
Connections how N73020 links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,681 registered
- Cessna 72,685 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-320 series 27,312 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Ajf Enterprises LLC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Des Moines, IA 108 aircraft registered in this town
- Des Moines International · DSM
- Iowa 4,512 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 4,220 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 857 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
- Where N73020 is now · Last seen Sunday at 12:42 pm.
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The public federal record on N73020, 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 Ajf Enterprises LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 22, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 7, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17267239 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N73020 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 140 (serial 10225, cancelled July 6, 1967). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N73020. 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 November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data