Beech C-45H
N9172Z is a Beech C-45H, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Nighthawk Air Systems INC, a corporation in Palmetto Bay, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 19, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 1, 1960.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- C-45H · all C-45Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- AF-604
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 165 mph
- Transponder code
- ACB362 (octal 53131542)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 19, 2020
- Expires
- February 28, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 1, 1960
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00340941
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nighthawk Air Systems INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 9785 SW 181St Ter Ste 200
Palmetto Bay, FL 33157-5566
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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 · 4 clear
The public federal record on N9172Z, 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 Nighthawk Air Systems INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 19, 2020, expires February 28, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AF-604 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9172Z 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9172Z. 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