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N12779

Cessna 172M

Valid Virginia

N12779 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 Mile High Flyers Club INC, a corporation in Fort Valley, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 9, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 27, 1973. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172M · all 172Ms and related versions
Serial number
17262252
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
A07122 (octal 50070442)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 9, 2017
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · September 27, 1973
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00080670

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mile High Flyers Club INC
Type
Corporation
Address
118 Cater Ln
Fort Valley, VA 22652-1728

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Documents on file 1

2026-09-15Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

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The public federal record on N12779, 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 Mile High Flyers Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 9, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated September 27, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17262252 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N12779 according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 15, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N12779. 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.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data