Cessna 172N
N739AM 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 an individual in San Antonio, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 27, 2003 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 18, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17270389
- 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
- A9EC86 (octal 52366206)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 27, 2003
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 18, 1978
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00642307
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bartels Michael
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 116 Ira Ave Apt 4
San Antonio, TX 78209-7067
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 N739AM, 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 Bartels Michael, an individual, certificate issued June 27, 2003, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 18, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17270389 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N739AM 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 N739AM: Accident on August 18, 2004 at New Braunfels, TX: 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 student pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane. A contributing factor was the high wind condition.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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