Cessna 172M
N1489U 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 Austin Aeroflight INC, a corporation in Austin, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 18, 1990 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 28, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17267156
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A0C40E (octal 50142016)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 18, 1990
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 28, 1976
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00990790
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Austin Aeroflight INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 710 21St St NE
Austin, MN 55912
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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 N1489U, 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 Austin Aeroflight INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 18, 1990, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 28, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17267156 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1489U 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 N1489U: Accident on December 13, 1990 at Austin, MN: 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-IN-COMMAND (STUDENT)'S FAILURE TO PROPERLY EVALUATE AND COMPENSATE FOR GUSTY WIND CONDIITONS AND TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL OF THE AIRCRAFT DURING INITIAL CLIMB. CONTRIBUTING WAS THE STUDENT PILOT'S LACK OF TOTAL EXPERIENCE AND WIND GUSTS.
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