Cessna 172M
N73040 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 an individual in Roswell, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 16, 2016 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 11, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17267247
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A9CE08 (octal 52347010)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 16, 2016
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 11, 1976
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00421677
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Goulding Brian K
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 570 Huntwick Pl
Roswell, GA 30075-4300
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N73040, 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 Goulding Brian K, an individual, certificate issued November 16, 2016, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 11, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17267247 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N73040 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 140 (serial 10248, cancelled June 1, 1949). 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]
1 NTSB record under N73040: Accident on May 16, 1999 at Omak, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172M · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to properly secure the aircraft before hand-propping.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA99LA062 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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