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N7DG

Cessna 172N

N7DG is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Elizabeth City State University, a government body in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2019 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 1, 1977.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172N · all 172Ns and related versions
Serial number
17268586
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1977
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A9502E (octal 52250056)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 12, 2019
Expires
February 28, 2029
Last FAA action
July 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · February 1, 1977
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00710517

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Elizabeth City State University
Type
Government
Address
1704 Weeksville Rd
Elizabeth City, NC 27909-7977

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N7DG, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Elizabeth City State University, a government body, certificate issued February 12, 2019, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 1, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17268586 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7DG according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N7DG. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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