Cessna 172N
N733CP 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 Westerly Air LLC, an LLC in Westerly, Rhode Island. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 1, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 19, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17268193
- 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
- A9D670 (octal 52353160)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 1, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 19, 1976
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00231847
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Westerly Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 63 Tom Harvey Rd
Westerly, RI 02891-3617
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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 N733CP, 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 Westerly Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 1, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 19, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17268193 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N733CP 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 N733CP: Accident on May 18, 2026 at Westerly, RI: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Accident on September 14, 1986 at Seven Springs, PA: 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
On May 18, 2026, about 1205 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 172N, N733CP, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Westerly, Rhode Island. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 post-maintenance flight. The operator reported that the pilot was conducting a post-maintenance test flight to verify proper operation of the alternator. A local police department officer saw the airplane flying extremely low when it banked hard to the point where the wings were almost at a ninety-degree angle and the airplane…
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN26FA192 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
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- 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
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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