Cessna 172H
N1496F is a Cessna 172H, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Red Springs, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2012 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 28, 1966.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172H · all 172Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17254991
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A0C74F (octal 50143517)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 11, 2012
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 28, 1966
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00301820
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith James F
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 599 Johnson Pond Rd
Red Springs, NC 28377-9267 - Co-owners
- Buie John M
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 N1496F, 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 Smith James F, a co-owned, certificate issued January 11, 2012, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 28, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17254991 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1496F 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1496F. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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