Cessna 172N
N733AM is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Glendale Community College, a government body in Glendale, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 29, 1998 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 10, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17268145
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A9D63C (octal 52353074)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 29, 1998
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 10, 1976
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00541837
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Glendale Community College
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 1500 N Verdugo Rd
Glendale, CA 91208-2809
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N733AM, 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 Glendale Community College, a government body, certificate issued April 29, 1998, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 10, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17268145 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N733AM 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]
2 NTSB records under N733AM: Accident on December 21, 2002 at Pacoima, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on November 14, 1998 at Lancaster, CA: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172N · operated under 091
the student pilot's excessive use of the elevator control that resulted in an inadvertent lift-off and his failure to maintain/attain adequate airspeed, which resulted in a stall and hard landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172N · operated under 091
The failure of the pilot to maintain directional control of the aircraft.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data