Cessna 172H
N1686F 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 an individual in Palmer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 24, 2014 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 22, 1966.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172H · all 172Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17255081
- 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
- A11296 (octal 50211226)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 24, 2014
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 22, 1966
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00502230
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Adams Claude T JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 3981
Palmer, AK 99645-3981
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 N1686F, 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 Adams Claude T JR, an individual, certificate issued March 24, 2014, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 22, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17255081 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1686F 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 N1686F: Accident on June 30, 1996 at Pierce, 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172H · operated under 091
a loss of engine power for undetermined reasons. A factor was the unsuitable terrain.
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