Cessna 172K
N78303 is a Cessna 172K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1968. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Citizen Air LLC, an LLC in Port Angeles, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; aerial surveying; forest; patrolling, dated August 16, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172K · all 172Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 17257560
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-E2D · 150 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AA9E1F (octal 52517037)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 9, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 9, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Aerial surveying; Forest; Patrolling · August 16, 2018
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00684930
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Citizen Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1402 Fairchild Airport Rd
Port Angeles, WA 98363-9502
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N78303, 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 Citizen Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 9, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 16, 2018, 50 years after the 1968 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17257560 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78303 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Globe GC-1 (serial 2303, cancelled March 8, 1949). 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 N78303. 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