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N6974H

Cessna 172M

N6974H 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 Watsonair LLC, an LLC in Carlsbad, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 17, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 7, 1975.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172M
Serial number
17265674
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1975
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
A947A3 (octal 52243643)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 17, 2026
Expires
January 31, 2033
Last FAA action
January 17, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · August 7, 1975
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00080477

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Watsonair LLC
Type
LLC
Address
6884 Shearwaters Dr
Carlsbad, CA 92011-3703

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.

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