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N73846

Cessna 172N

N73846 is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in North Charleston, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 26, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 10, 1976.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172N · all 172Ns and related versions
Serial number
17267717
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1976
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A9EBC6 (octal 52365706)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 26, 2021
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · September 10, 1976
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00222287

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bernstein Matthew D
Type
Individual
Address
3012 Harris Mill Dr
North Charleston, SC 29420-8427

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N73846, 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 Bernstein Matthew D, an individual, certificate issued January 26, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 10, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17267717 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N73846 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N73846: Accident on May 26, 1994 at Hartford, AL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

ATL94LA107Accident on May 26, 1994 at Hartford, AL: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172N · operated under 091

THE STUDENT PILOT'S INADEQUATE COMPENSATION FOR GUSTING WIND CONDITIONS DURING THE APPROACH TO LAND. FACTORS WERE THE INSTRUCTOR PILOT'S INADEQUATE SUPERVISION OF HIS STUDENT, THE GUSTING WIND CONDITIONS, AND THE TREES LOCATED IN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO THE RUNWAY.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL94LA107 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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