Cessna 207A
N73217 is a Cessna 207A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Ryan Air INC, a corporation in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 14, 1981 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 12, 1979.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Ryan Air, INC., so it can be flown for hire.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 207A · all 207As 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 207 Skywagon 207 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
- 20700572
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-520-F · 300 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- A9D514 (octal 52352424)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 14, 1981
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 12, 1979
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00851827
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ryan Air INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 6400 Carl Brady Dr
Anchorage, AK 99502-1804
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 N73217 links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 207 Skywagon 207 115 registered
- Cessna 72,683 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Ryan Air, INC. · charter operator
- Continental IO-520-F 80 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Ryan Air INC 27 aircraft in the fleet
- Anchorage, AK 2,529 aircraft registered in this town
- Lake Hood Airport · LHD
- Merrill Field · MRI
- Ted Stevens Anchorage International · ANC
- Bold Airport · A13
- 2 more landing places in town
- Alaska 9,145 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 207 Skywagon 207 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 207 Skywagon 207 314 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 207 Skywagon 207 157 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-520-F 32 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520-F 751 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Alternator, failed · 2004-11-29
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The public federal record on N73217, 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 Ryan Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 14, 1981, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 12, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20700572 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N73217 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 47G-3B (serial 2749, cancelled February 15, 1968). 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 N73217. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data