Cessna 172M
N1252U 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 an individual in Los Altos Hills, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 13, 2003 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 18, 1976. 3 documents are on file: loan or lien (security agreement), bill of sale (evidence of ownership), loan release.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17266947
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A068F6 (octal 50064366)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 13, 2003
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 18, 1976
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00620600
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wilcke Winfried W
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 4022 Page Mill Rd
Los Altos Hills, CA 94022-4259
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 3
Records check free · 1 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N1252U, 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 Wilcke Winfried W, an individual, certificate issued August 13, 2003, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 18, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17266947 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1252U according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 18, 2026), and 1 release. The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1252U. 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