Cessna 172N
N738LC 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 Cruise Flight Academy INC, a non-citizen corporation in Dalton, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 7, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 19, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17270053
- 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
- A9E9C0 (octal 52364700)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 7, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 19, 1977
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00932237
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cruise Flight Academy INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporation
- Address
- 4483 Airport Rd
Dalton, GA 30721
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 N738LC, 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 Cruise Flight Academy INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued April 7, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 19, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17270053 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N738LC 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 N738LC: Accident on November 24, 1997 at Watkins, CO: 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
loss of engine power for undertermined reason(s).
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW98LA061 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