Cessna 172G
N172BX is a Cessna 172G, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Bas Part Sales LLC, an LLC in Greeley, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 3, 1966.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172G · all 172Gs 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 172 Skyhawk 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
- 17254216
- 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 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1966
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A120CA (octal 50220312)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- May 27, 2026
- 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 · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 3, 1966
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00991494
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bas Part Sales LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 575 Ed Beegles Ln
Greeley, CO 80631
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.
Connections how N172BX links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,675 registered
- Cessna 72,687 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental O-300 series 6,622 aircraft with this engine series · 145 hp
- Bas Part Sales LLC 382 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to May 20, 2027
- Greeley, CO 513 aircraft registered in this town
- Easton/Valley View Airport · 11V
- Greeley-Weld County · GXY
- Colorado 7,455 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 4,219 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 857 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental O-300 series 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental O-300 series 38 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Engine, vapor lock · 2008-05-10
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The public federal record on N172BX, 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 Bas Part Sales LLC, an LLC, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 3, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17254216 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N172BX 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 N172BX: Accident on December 26, 2025 at Taylor, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
On December 26, 2025, about 1501 central standard time, a Cessna 172G airplane, N172BX, sustained substantial damage when it was involved in an accident near Taylor, Texas. The pilot and the passenger sustained no injury. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The private pilot, who is the airplane owner, reported the purpose of the local area flight was to practice flight maneuvers. The airplane departed from runway 17 at the Taylor Municipal Airport (T74), Taylor, Texas, about 1422. The airplane flew to the east of T74, practiced the vari…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 22, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 22, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 22, 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 22, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data