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N9522S

Cessna 172R

N9522S is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Snohomish Flying Service INC, a corporation in Snohomish, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 2012 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 27, 1998.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172R · all 172Rs and related versions
Serial number
17280432
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1998
Transponder code
AD3EC4 (octal 53237304)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 24, 2012
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
April 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · March 27, 1998
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00317151

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Snohomish Flying Service INC
Type
Corporation
Address
9900 Airport Way
Snohomish, WA 98296-8218

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

1972-04-27Champion 7ECA · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N9522S, 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 Snohomish Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 24, 2012, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 27, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17280432 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9522S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Champion 7ECA (serial 7ECA-312, cancelled April 27, 1972). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N9522S: Incident on November 16, 2006 at Seattle, WA: no injuries. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

SEA07IA019Incident on November 16, 2006 at Seattle, WA: no injuries.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091

The instructor pilot's improper in-flight decision not to take evasive action as a heavy aircraft passed by while on an upwind parallel approach path to an adjacent runway, leading to a wake vortices encounter. Factors include a nearly direct crosswind blowing from the heavy aircraft toward the incident aircraft.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA07IA019 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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