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N1450U

Cessna 172M

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesColorado

N1450U is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Peterson Air Force Base Aero Club, a government body in Peterson Afb, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 13, 1979 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 14, 1976.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172M · all 172Ms and related versions
Serial number
17267117
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
1976
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
A0B7AE (octal 50133656)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
February 13, 1979
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 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 · April 14, 1976
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00001750

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Peterson Air Force Base Aero Club
Type
GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
Peterson Aero Club
Hangar 133 Bldg 325
Peterson Afb, CO 80914

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N1450U, 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 Peterson Air Force Base Aero Club, a government body, certificate issued February 13, 1979, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated April 14, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17267117 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N1450U 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N1450U: Accident on October 18, 1992 at Colorado Spring, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

DEN93LA019Accident on October 18, 1992 at Colorado Spring, CO: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091

PROPER DESCENT RATE WAS NOT MAINTAINED BY THE PILOT IN COMMAND WHICH RESULTED IN A HARD LANDING.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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