Cessna 172RG
N9530B 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 Sierra Alpha Aeronautical LLC, an LLC in San Antonio, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 21, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 17, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172RG · all 172RGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 172RG0858
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- AD4226 (octal 53241046)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 21, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 17, 1981
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00974490
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sierra Alpha Aeronautical LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3102 Arts Cir
San Antonio, TX 78247-2800
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 N9530B, 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 Sierra Alpha Aeronautical LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 21, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 17, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172RG0858 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9530B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 180A (serial 32827, cancelled March 19, 1957). 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 N9530B: Accident on February 20, 1989 at Durhamville, NY: 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
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO EXTEND THE LANDING GEAR BEFORE LANDING AFTER ALLOWING HIS ATTENTION TO BE DIVERTED.
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