Cessna 172M
N12483 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 an individual in Climax, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 5, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 23, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17262009
- 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
- A0661A (octal 50063032)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 5, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 5, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 23, 1973
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00400590
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rucinski Edward A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5816 Liberty Rd
Climax, NC 27233-8088
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 N12483, 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 Rucinski Edward A, an individual, certificate issued September 5, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 23, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17262009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N12483 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca C-3 (serial A-197, cancelled December 15, 1940). 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 N12483: Accident on June 12, 2001 at Bennettsville, SC: 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 improper correction for wind conditions and his failure to maintain control of the airplane resulting in the airplane sliding off an embankment during taxi from landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA01LA161 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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