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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- R172E · all R172Es and related versions
- Serial number
- R1720147
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 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 registration
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 1991
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 26, 1992
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00455471
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United States Air Force Owner
- Type
- Government
- 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.
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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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN18LA335 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna R172E · operated under 091
THE PILOT DID NOT MAINTAIN CLEARANCE AND THE AIRPLANE COLLIDED WITH A FENCE POST.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN92LA053 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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