Cessna 172R
N997MC is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Aeroventures Flying Club INC, a corporation in Lilburn, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 10, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 16, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172R · all 172Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17280039
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- ADEDBA (octal 53366672)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 10, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- November 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 16, 1997
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00086411
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aeroventures Flying Club INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 5802 Dovnick Dr SW
Lilburn, GA 30047
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 N997MC, 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 Aeroventures Flying Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 10, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 16, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17280039 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N997MC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hughes TH-55A (serial 6418224, cancelled March 21, 1989). 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 N997MC: Accident on January 28, 2021 at Lawrenceville, GA: 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 172R · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing in a gusting crosswind, which resulted in a loss of control and runway excursion.
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 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