Cessna 172N
N738CY 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 American Patrols INC, a corporation in Midland, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 28, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 31, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17269883
- 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
- A9E90C (octal 52364414)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 28, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 31, 1977
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00712217
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Patrols INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 10306 S County Road 1210
Midland, TX 79706-7820
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 N738CY, 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 American Patrols INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 28, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 31, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17269883 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N738CY 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 N738CY: Accident on October 6, 1984 at Youngstown, OH: 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI85LA008 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
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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