Cessna 172H
N1688F 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 Skydive Spi LLC, an LLC in South Padre Island, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 23, 1966.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172H · all 172Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17255083
- 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
- A112DC (octal 50211334)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 7, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 23, 1966
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00082240
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Skydive Spi LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2812 Padre Blvd Ste A
South Padre Island, TX 78597-6908
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 N1688F, 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 Skydive Spi LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 7, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 23, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17255083 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1688F 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 N1688F: Accident on July 1, 2000 at Friendly, MD: 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
the student pilot's inadequate compensation for winds that resulted in his failure to maintain runway alignment and a hard landing.
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
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