Cessna 172N
N9400E is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Van Anda Aviation LLC, an LLC in Apopka, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 23, 2009 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 2, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17272249
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AD0F85 (octal 53207605)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 23, 2009
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 2, 1979
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00030231
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Van Anda Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4149 Rock Hill Loop
Apopka, FL 32712-4796
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 N9400E, 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 Van Anda Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 23, 2009, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 2, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17272249 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9400E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 11AC (serial 11AC-1037, cancelled April 16, 1958). 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]
1 NTSB record under N9400E: Accident on August 6, 2014 at Valkaria, FL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172N · operated under 091
The pilot's misjudgment of speed and distance on final approach during a precautionary landing, resulting in a touchdown off the departure end of the runway and collision with terrain. A factor in the accident was a partial loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined in post accident testing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA14CA375 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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