Cessna 172RG
N9439B is a Cessna 172RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Av Dak INC, a corporation in Crystal, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 21, 1989 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 27, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172RG · all 172RGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 172RG0822
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- AD1BE2 (octal 53215742)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 21, 1989
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 27, 1981
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00550101
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Av Dak INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 8132 County Road 12
Crystal, ND 58222
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 N9439B, 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 Av Dak INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 21, 1989, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 27, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172RG0822 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9439B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 175 (serial 55239, cancelled July 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 N9439B: Accident on January 21, 1989 at Larimore, ND: no 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 172RG · operated under 091
INADEQUATE SUPERVISION BY THE FLIGHT INSTRUCTOR. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: FAILURE OF THE STUDENT PILOT TO ATTAIN A PROPER TOUCHDOWN POINT, HIS DELAY IN CONFIGURING THE AIRCRAFT & EXECUTING THE GO-AROUND, ICY/SNOWY RUNWAY CONDITIONS, AND THE SNOWBANK.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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