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Cessna R172E
N146AC is a Cessna R172E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 4 seats. It is registered to United States Air Force Owner, a government body in Usaf Academy, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 1991 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 26, 1992.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- R172E · all R172Es 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 R172 Hawk XP 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
- R1720147
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-360 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A0B8FD (octal 50134375)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 1991
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 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 · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 26, 1992
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00455471
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United States Air Force Owner
- 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
- 9222 Airfield Dr
Usaf Academy, CO 80840 - Co-owners
- United States Air Force Academy Operator
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 N146AC links to the rest of the register
- Cessna R172 Hawk XP 758 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-360 series 1,853 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- United States Air Force Owner 37 aircraft in the fleet
- Usaf Academy, CO 36 aircraft registered in this town
- Colorado 7,454 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna R172 Hawk XP 32 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna R172 Hawk XP 91 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna R172 Hawk XP 341 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-360 series 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-360 series 41 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Piston Pin, failed · 2002-07-17
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The public federal record on N146AC, 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 United States Air Force Owner, a government body, certificate issued June 24, 1991, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 26, 1992, 25 years after the 1967 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial R1720147 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N146AC 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]
2 NTSB records under N146AC: Accident on August 16, 2018 at Colorado Springs, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 18, 1992 at Colorado Spring, CO: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna R172E · operated under 091
The airplane’s failure to maintain a climb after takeoff, which resulted in a forced landing on unsuitable terrain; the reason for the airplane’s failure to climb could not be determined based on the available evidence.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna R172E · operated under 091
THE PILOT DID NOT MAINTAIN CLEARANCE AND THE AIRPLANE COLLIDED WITH A FENCE POST.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data