{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1963-04-26","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"","city":"BAINBRIDGE","country_code":"US","county_code":"133","cruise_speed_mph":105,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[{"collateral_type":"Aircraft","doc_type":"Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)","doc_type_code":"BOS","party":"","receipt_date":"2026-09-30"}],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17022","engine_horsepower":145,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"0-300 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-06-09","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2072410","mode_s_code":"52344654","mode_s_hex":"A9C9AC","model":"172D","n_number":"N73L","name":"REGISTRATION PENDING","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"GREENEVILLE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1991-09-15","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ATL91LA175","probable_cause":"THE INADEQUATE VISUAL LOOKOUT BY THE PILOT OF N78239, AND HIS FAILURE TO ACCURATELY JUDGE THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE TWO AIRCRAFT.  FACTORS IN THE ACCIDENT WERE THE DARK NIGHT CONDITIONS AND THE RESULTING VISUAL PERCEPTION OF AIRCRAFT LIGHTING IN DARK CONDITIONS.","registration":"N73L","state":"TN","summary":"Accident on September 15, 1991 at Greeneville, TN: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N73L is a Cessna 172D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1963. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bainbridge, Indiana. The FAA lists the registration as \"registration pending\". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 26, 1963. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).","records_check":[{"finding":"Registration status is \"Registration pending\". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"Standard certificate, dated April 26, 1963, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17250283 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N73L according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 30, 2026).","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N73L: Accident on September 15, 1991 at Greeneville, TN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":4,"serial_number":"17250283","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"IN","status":"Registration pending","status_code":"R","status_short":"Pending","street":"5 WAY WEST AIRPARK","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00661647","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N73L","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1963,"zip":"461059572"}