Cessna 172N
N1686E is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Spearfish, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 2007 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 16, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17271093
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A11295 (octal 50211225)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 21, 2007
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 16, 1978
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00512230
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Liddick Terry S
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 2630 Lookout Mountain Rd
Spearfish, SD 57783-6116 - Co-owners
- Liddick Deborah
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N1686E, 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 Liddick Terry S, a co-owned, certificate issued August 21, 2007, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 16, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17271093 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1686E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-5219, cancelled November 18, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N1686E. 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