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.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Citizen Air LLC, so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 4:04 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172K · all 172Ks and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 172 Skyhawk family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 17257560
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-E2D · 150 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AA9E1F (octal 52517037)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 9, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 9, 2025
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; Aerial surveying; Forest; PatrollingFAA certificate purpose code 13245 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 16, 2018
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00684930
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Citizen Air LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N78303 links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,686 registered
- Cessna 72,677 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Citizen Air LLC · charter operator
- Lycoming O-320-E2D 259 aircraft with this engine series · 150 hp
- Citizen Air LLC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Port Angeles, WA 72 aircraft registered in this town
- William R Fairchild International · CLM
- Port Angeles Seaplane Base · W66
- Washington 10,662 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 4,222 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 857 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320-E2D 19 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320-E2D 494 reports since 1995
- Where N78303 is now · Last seen yesterday at 4:04 pm.
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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 November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data