Cessna 172M
N12991 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 Usda Forest Service Fepp, a government body in Columbia, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 21, 1986 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 25, 1973.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 172 Skyhawk family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 17262432
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A078CE (octal 50074316)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 21, 1986
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 25, 1973
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00720720
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Usda Forest Service Fepp
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5500 Broad River Rd
Columbia, SC 29212-3543 - Co-owners
- South Carolina Forestry Commission
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.
Connections how N12991 links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,691 registered
- Cessna 72,677 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-320 series 27,303 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Usda Forest Service Fepp 108 aircraft in the fleet
- Columbia, SC 93 aircraft registered in this town
- Columbia Metro Airport · CAE
- Jim Hamilton L B Owens Airport · CUB
- South Carolina 3,112 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 4,222 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 857 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
- Where N12991 is now · Last seen Sunday at 2:27 pm.
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The public federal record on N12991, 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 Usda Forest Service Fepp, a government body, certificate issued May 21, 1986, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 25, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17262432 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N12991 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N12991. 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 November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data