Cessna 172N
N9853J is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Eastern Kentucky University Center For Aviation, a government body in Richmond, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 17, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17273937
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- ADC081 (octal 53340201)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 12, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 12, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 17, 1980
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00893720
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eastern Kentucky University Center For Aviation
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 251 Lancaster Ave
Richmond, KY 40475
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N9853J, 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 Eastern Kentucky University Center For Aviation, a government body, certificate issued February 12, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 17, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17273937 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9853J 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9853J. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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