Cessna 172M
N12698 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 American Patrols INC, a corporation in Midland, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 4, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 14, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17262187
- 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
- A06DB0 (octal 50066660)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 4, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 14, 1973
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00880640
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Patrols INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 10306 S County Road 1210
Midland, TX 79706-7820
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 N12698, 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 American Patrols INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 4, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 14, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17262187 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N12698 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 N12698: Accident on February 28, 1993 at Salem, OR: 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 FAILURE OF THE ENGINE OIL PUMP IMPELLER.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA93LA070 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
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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