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N3985

Cessna 172P

Valid Florida

N3985 is a Cessna 172P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Nighthawk N8231G LLC, an LLC in Pompano Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 7, 2024.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172P
Serial number
17275841
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-D2J · 160 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1982
Transponder code
A4A388 (octal 51121610)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 11, 2025
Expires
February 29, 2032
Last FAA action
April 8, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · November 7, 2024
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00362736

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Nighthawk N8231G LLC
Type
LLC
Address
2680 NE 24Th St
Pompano Beach, FL 33064-7701

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

1939-08-15Swallow Airplane Mfg Co SWALLOW LAND PLANE · Valid registration

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