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N172GW

Cessna 172S

Valid Florida

N172GW is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kissimmee, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 22, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 2, 1999.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172S · all 172Ss and related versions
Serial number
172S8289
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1999
Transponder code
A12146 (octal 50220506)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 22, 2024
Expires
August 31, 2031
Last FAA action
August 22, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · November 2, 1999
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00515902

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Techau Troy E
Type
Individual
Address
1630 Marina Lake Dr
Kissimmee, FL 34744-6460

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N172GW, 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 Techau Troy E, an individual, certificate issued August 22, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 2, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8289 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N172GW according to the deregistered file. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N172GW: Accident on September 20, 2005 at Cedar City, UT: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

DEN05CA145Accident on September 20, 2005 at Cedar City, UT: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172S · operated under 091

the student pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during the landing. Factors contributing to the accident were the improper flare and improper recovery from a bounced landing.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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