Cessna 172M
N9173H is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1975. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Smitty 172 LLC, an LLC in Rockford, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 13, 2018 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 1, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17265992
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- ACB375 (octal 53131565)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 13, 2018
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 1, 1975
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00940941
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smitty 172 LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7251 Cuesta Way Dr NE
Rockford, MI 49341-8383
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N9173H, 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 Smitty 172 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 13, 2018, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 1, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17265992 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9173H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild PT-23 (serial 2533AE, cancelled March 27, 1951). 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 N9173H. 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 September 30, 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