Cessna 172P
N97883 is a Cessna 172P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Rick Aviation INC, a corporation in Newport News, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 27, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 12, 1984.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17276237
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- ADA4E9 (octal 53322351)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 27, 2021
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 12, 1984
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00052104
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rick Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 902 Bland Blvd Ste D
Newport News, VA 23602-4506
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.
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The public federal record on N97883, 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 Rick Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 27, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 12, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17276237 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N97883 according to the deregistered file. [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]
2 NTSB records under N97883: Accident on October 6, 2022 at Newport News, VA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Accident on June 14, 1992 at Auburn, AL: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
The flight instructor’s failure to monitor the student pilot on takeoff and her delayed remedial action to stop him from exceeding the airplane’s critical angle of attack, which resulted in a low altitude aerodynamic stall from which she was unable to recover.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA23FA008 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S IMPROPER LANDING FLARE, AND HIS IMPROPER RECOVERY FROM A BOUNCED LANDING.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL92LA125 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data