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N984BT

Cessna 172R

N984BT 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 Moore Aviation INC, a corporation in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 14, 2007 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 12, 1998.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172R · all 172Rs and related versions
Serial number
17280431
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1998
Transponder code
ADBA2B (octal 53335053)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 14, 2007
Expires
May 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · March 12, 1998
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00626991

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Moore Aviation INC
Type
Corporation
Address
7 Piper St Ste 2
Beaver Falls, PA 15010-1043

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

—Piper PA-28-181 · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N984BT, 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 Moore Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 14, 2007, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 12, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17280431 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N984BT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-181 (serial 287790528, cancelled date not given). 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 N984BT: Accident on July 8, 2018 at Beaver Falls, PA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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

GAA18CA498Accident on July 8, 2018 at Beaver Falls, PA: no injuries, substantial damage.

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

The student pilot's improper landing flare, which resulted in a bounced landing.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA18CA498 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