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N8873B

Cessna 172

N8873B is a Cessna 172, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Pathfinder Aerospace LLC, an LLC in Raeford, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 19, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated January 10, 1958.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172
Serial number
36573
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1958
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
AC3A99 (octal 53035231)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 19, 2025
Expires
November 30, 2032
Last FAA action
November 19, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · January 10, 1958
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00211821

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Pathfinder Aerospace LLC
Type
LLC
Address
181 Ashcroft Ct
Raeford, NC 28376-7476

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