Cessna 172M
N13400 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 Opolka John G, a partnership in Midlothian, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 16, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 20, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17262730
- 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
- A08C7E (octal 50106176)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 16, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 16, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 20, 1973
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00791410
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Opolka John G
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 2910 Eagles Nest Ct
Midlothian, TX 76065-4702 - Co-owners
- Opolka Marni A / Spencer Jeff B / Williams Michael D / Williams Joann O
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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 N13400, 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 Opolka John G, a partnership, certificate issued February 16, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 20, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17262730 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N13400 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 N13400: Accident on November 11, 1992 at Olympia, WA: 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 PILOT'S POOR INFLIGHT DECISION, AND EXCESSIVE AIRSPEED ON FINAL. FACTORS INCLUDE A WET TURF RUNWAY, AND TREES ADJACENT TO THE RUNWAY.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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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