Cessna 172N
N733FR 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 Crotts Aircraft Service INC, a corporation in Dodge City, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 25, 2009 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 8, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17268265
- 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
- A9D6BD (octal 52353275)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 25, 2009
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 8, 1976
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00561807
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Crotts Aircraft Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 102 Airport Rd
Dodge City, KS 67801-9350
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.
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The public federal record on N733FR, 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 Crotts Aircraft Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 25, 2009, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 8, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17268265 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N733FR 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]
1 NTSB record under N733FR: Accident on February 22, 2009 at Manhattan, KS: 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 172 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN09CA229 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