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N12766

Cessna 172M

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesConnecticut

N12766 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 Civil Air Patrol Flying Assoc INC, a corporation in Branford, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 20, 2013 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 25, 1973.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172M · all 172Ms and related versions
Serial number
17262240
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
1973
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
A070FC (octal 50070374)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
March 20, 2013
Expires
March 31, 2029
Last FAA action
March 27, 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 · September 25, 1973
FAA region
New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00850660

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Civil Air Patrol Flying Assoc INC
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
10 Buckley Rd
Branford, CT 06405-5208

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N12766, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Civil Air Patrol Flying Assoc INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 20, 2013, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated September 25, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17262240 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N12766 according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N12766. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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.

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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