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N172A

Cessna 172C

Valid Nevada

N172A is a Cessna 172C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cal Nev Ari, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 11, 2017 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated November 11, 2019.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172C · all 172Cs and related versions
Serial number
172-48797
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300-D · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1961
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A1209B (octal 50220233)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 11, 2017
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · November 11, 2019
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01147632

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Pocock Milne David
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 519
Cal Nev Ari, NV 89039-0519

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

1964-10-19Martin 202 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N172A, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Pocock Milne David, an individual, certificate issued July 11, 2017, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 11, 2019, 58 years after the 1961 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172-48797 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N172A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Martin 202 (serial 9142, cancelled October 19, 1964). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N172A. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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