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N17297

Cessna 172R

Valid Texas

N17297 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 Van Bortel Aircraft INC, a corporation in Arlington, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 8, 1997.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172R
Serial number
17280140
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1997
Transponder code
A1244E (octal 50222116)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
September 15, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · August 8, 1997
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00516651

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Van Bortel Aircraft INC
Type
Corporation
Address
4912 S Collins St
Arlington, TX 76018-1135

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

1992-09-21Cessna 150L · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data