Cessna 172N
N733VS is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Clemson Flying Club INC, a corporation in Seneca, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 3, 2003 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 14, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17268588
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A9D81C (octal 52354034)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 3, 2003
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- December 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 14, 1977
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00131877
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Clemson Flying Club INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 365 Airport Rd
Seneca, SC 29678-2001
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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 N733VS, 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 Clemson Flying Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 3, 2003, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 14, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17268588 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N733VS 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 N733VS: Accident on May 13, 1989 at Fuquay, NC: 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 172N · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE STUDENT PILOT TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT DURING THE LANDING, WHICH RESULTED IN AN INADVERTENT GROUND SWERVE. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS WERE: IMPROPER FLARE BY THE STUDENT DURING THE LANDING, WHICH RESULTED IN A HARD LANDING, AND THE SOFT/WET (SWAMPY) TERRAIN CONDITIONS.
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