Cessna 172N
N733ZN 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 Atmospheric Vehicle & Spacecraft Flt Exploration, a corporation in Rch Palos Vrd, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 9, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 18, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17268680
- 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
- A9D87C (octal 52354174)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 9, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 18, 1977
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00521867
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Atmospheric Vehicle & Spacecraft Flt Exploration
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 4025 Admirable Dr
Rch Palos Vrd, CA 90275-6029
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 N733ZN, 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 Atmospheric Vehicle & Spacecraft Flt Exploration, a corporation, certificate issued November 9, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 18, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17268680 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N733ZN 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 N733ZN: Accident on September 20, 2023 at Compton, CA: minor 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
The total loss of engine power on takeoff due to water-contaminated fuel. Contributing to the accident was the inadequately maintained fuel system, which resulted in water entering the fuel tanks through the filler caps.
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 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