Cessna 172M
N12502 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 Flying Illini INC, a corporation in Champaign, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 8, 1975 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 9, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17262025
- 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
- A068B8 (octal 50064270)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 8, 1975
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 9, 1973
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00350600
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flying Illini INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- Box 2365 Sta A
Champaign, IL 61820
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N12502, 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 Flying Illini INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 8, 1975, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 9, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17262025 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N12502 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aircraft Mechanics Inc D2-FLYABOUTD2 (serial 3013, cancelled April 13, 1948). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N12502. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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