Cessna 172N
N737NM 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 Civil Air Patrol, a corporation in Maxwell Afb, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 1981 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 13, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17269515
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A9E644 (octal 52363104)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 1981
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 13, 2005
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00572147
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Civil Air Patrol
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 105 S Hansell St
Maxwell Afb, AL 36112-6332
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N737NM, 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 Civil Air Patrol, a corporation, certificate issued January 22, 1981, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 13, 2005, 28 years after the 1977 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17269515 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N737NM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna TR182 (serial R18200861, cancelled date not given). 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 N737NM: Accident on March 10, 1987 at No.Atlantic Oc, AO: no injuries, destroyed. 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 TR182 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA87LA103 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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