Cessna 172N
N74C 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 Personal Aviation INC, a corporation in Poway, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 11, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. 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
- 17270368
- 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
- A9F063 (octal 52370143)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 11, 2019
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 2, 1978
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00672267
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Personal Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 13935 Bernadotte Ln
Poway, CA 92064-4816
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N74C, 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 Personal Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 11, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. 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 17270368 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N74C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna T-310P (serial 310P0212, cancelled March 15, 1989); Lockheed 18-08 (serial 2561, cancelled November 24, 1971). 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]
1 NTSB record under N74C: Accident on July 2, 2024 at San Diego, CA: minor 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
A failure of the No. 2 cylinder due to fatigue cracking as the result of an undersized fillet radius around the edge of the cylinder head dome.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR24LA229 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