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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Cessna P172D
N159JM is a Cessna P172D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1963. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sauk City, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 20, 2020 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 9, 1963.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- P172D · all P172Ds 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 P172 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
- P17257176
- 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 GO-300 SERIES · 175 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1963
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A0EC72 (octal 50166162)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 20, 2020
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 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 · March 9, 1963
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00002621
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wyttenbach Joel N
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- E10738 County Road O
Sauk City, WI 53583-9610
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N159JM links to the rest of the register
- Cessna P172 23 registered
- Cessna 72,685 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental GO-300 series 808 aircraft with this engine series · 175 hp
- Sauk City, WI 10 aircraft registered in this town
- Wisconsin 6,165 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna P172 15 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna P172 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna P172 283 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental GO-300 series 4 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental GO-300 series 16 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N159JM, 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 Wyttenbach Joel N, an individual, certificate issued May 20, 2020, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated March 9, 1963, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial P17257176 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N159JM 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 N159JM. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data