Cessna 172N
N739AK is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in West Windsor, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 30, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 22, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17272502
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A9EC84 (octal 52366204)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 30, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 22, 1979
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00162665
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chen Wu
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 22 Millstone Rd
West Windsor, NJ 08550-1208
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 · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N739AK, 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 Chen Wu, an individual, certificate issued March 30, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17272502 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N739AK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17270388, cancelled February 23, 1979). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N739AK. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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