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A Cessna R172 Hawk XP, the same model family as N736QC
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N736QC

Cessna R172K

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNew Mexico

N736QC is a Cessna R172K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Kirtland Aero Club, a government body in Kirtland Afb, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 21, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 1, 1977.

Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 10:56 am.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
R172K · all R172Ks and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna R172 Hawk XP family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
R1722696
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
76 mph
Transponder code
A9E2B6 (octal 52361266)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
October 21, 2026
Expires
October 31, 2033
Last FAA action
October 21, 2026
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 1, 1977
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00812067

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kirtland Aero Club (flying club: its whole fleet and safety record)
Type
GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
3400 Clark Ave Hgr 333
Kirtland Afb, NM 87117-0001
Learn to fly in N736QC with Kirtland Aero Club:

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N736QC links to the rest of the register

Design
Owner
Place
  • Kirtland Afb, NM 5 aircraft registered in this town
  • New Mexico 3,108 aircraft registered
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N736QC.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N736QC, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Kirtland Aero Club, a government body, certificate issued October 21, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial R1722696 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N736QC according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N736QC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data