Cessna 172M
N1221U is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to J Linn Aviation INC, a corporation in Quinlan, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 2012 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 14, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17266918
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A05DAE (octal 50056656)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 9, 2012
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 14, 1976
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00340390
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- J Linn Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2042 County Road 3517
Quinlan, TX 75474-3604
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.
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The public federal record on N1221U, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to J Linn Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 9, 2012, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 14, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17266918 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1221U according to the deregistered file. [2]
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. [3]
1 NTSB record under N1221U: Accident on April 11, 2023 at Terrell, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172M · operated under 091
The student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing and the flight instructor’s delayed remedial response.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data