{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1975-10-31","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2016-12-12","city":"PINE CITY","country_code":"US","county_code":"115","cruise_speed_mph":108,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41508","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-320 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-12-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-09-22","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2072418","mode_s_code":"53230367","mode_s_hex":"AD30F7","model":"172M","n_number":"N9490H","name":"NOVAK RICKSON J","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Grantsburg","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-11-05","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN26LA035","probable_cause":"The collision with a white-tail deer during the landing in dark night visual conditions.","registration":"N9490H","state":"WI","summary":"Accident on November 5, 2025 at Grantsburg, WI: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N9490H is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1975. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pine City, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2016 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 31, 1975.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Novak Rickson J, an individual, certificate issued December 12, 2016, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 31, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17266177 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N9490H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing N2S-5 (serial 75-8538, cancelled October 19, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N9490H: Accident on November 5, 2025 at Grantsburg, WI: 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":"17266177","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"12620 SPRING VALLEY LN","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"00404690","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9490H","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1975,"zip":"550635801"}