Cessna 172M
N12477 is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1973. It has 4 seats. It is registered to South Mountain Flying Club INC, a corporation in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 2022 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 15, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17262005
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A065FB (octal 50062773)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 15, 2022
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 15, 1973
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00270590
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- South Mountain Flying Club INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- Pittsfield Municipal Airport
Pittsfield, MA 01201
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N12477, 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 South Mountain Flying Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 15, 2022, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 15, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17262005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N12477 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca C-3 (serial A-191, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N12477: Accident on June 19, 2011 at North Adams, MA: 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 pilot's inadequate visual lookout and subsequent failure to maintain clearance from a light pole while taxiing.
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
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data