Cessna 172M
N73601 is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Flex Air Holdings INC, a corporation in San Diego, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 14, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 7, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17267570
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A9E3C7 (octal 52361707)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 14, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 14, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · July 7, 1976
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00952107
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flex Air Holdings INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 8825 Aero Dr Ste 105
San Diego, CA 92123-2268
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N73601, 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 Flex Air Holdings INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 14, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 7, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17267570 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N73601 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild M-62A-3 (serial FX175, cancelled July 22, 1953). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N73601: Accident on December 13, 1995 at Palm Springs, CA: 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 172M · operated under 091
the pilot's inadequate bounced landing recovery technique, which resulted in porpoising during a downwind emergency landing. The loss of engine power for undetermined reasons was a factor.
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
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