Cessna 172R
N172EF is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 4 seats. It is registered to North Shore Aero Club INC, a corporation in Beverly, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 3, 2005 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 20, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172R · all 172Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17280876
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A12105 (octal 50220405)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 3, 2005
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 20, 2000
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00093603
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- North Shore Aero Club INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 370
Beverly, MA 01915-0007
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N172EF, 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 North Shore Aero Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 3, 2005, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 20, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17280876 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N172EF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172F (serial 17252049, cancelled February 17, 1972). 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]
1 NTSB record under N172EF: Accident on May 10, 2002 at Norwood, MA: minor 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 172 · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control during an aborted 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