Cessna 172N
N738YL is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Carter Flygare INC, a corporation in Sacramento, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 27, 2001 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 2, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17270341
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A9EAF4 (octal 52365364)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 27, 2001
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 2, 1978
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00852257
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Carter Flygare INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 6151 Freeport Blvd Ste 222
Sacramento, CA 95822-3530
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 N738YL, 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 Carter Flygare INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 27, 2001, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 2, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17270341 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N738YL 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 N738YL: Accident on October 25, 2003 at Fresno, CA: 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
the pilot's inadequate fuel management, which resulted in fuel starvation and a loss of engine power. Also causal was the pilot's failure to follow engine out emergency procedures as defined by the pilot operating handbook.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX04CA024 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