Cessna 172N
N734SW 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 Sierra Sky Aviation LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 17, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 13, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17269086
- 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
- A9DB8C (octal 52355614)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 17, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 17, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 13, 1977
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00561927
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sierra Sky Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1880 US Highway 93 S
Kalispell, MT 59901-5729
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 N734SW, 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 Sierra Sky Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 17, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 13, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17269086 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N734SW 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 N734SW: Accident on August 8, 2025 at Ronan, MT: 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
The student pilot's inadequate landing flare and recovery from a bounced landing.
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