Cessna 172N
N733QJ 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 Rick Aviation INC, a corporation in Newport News, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 25, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 5, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17268463
- 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
- A9D797 (octal 52353627)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 25, 2019
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · January 5, 1977
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00481847
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rick Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 902D Bland Blvd
Newport News, VA 23602
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 N733QJ, 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 Rick Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 25, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 5, 1977, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17268463 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N733QJ 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 N733QJ: Accident on December 11, 2023 at Newport News, VA: 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
An inflight collision with a bird during initial climb.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA24LA065 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