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N172HP

Cessna 172R

Valid Texas

N172HP is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Spinnaker Aviation LLC, an LLC in Conroe, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 30, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 11, 1997.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172R · all 172Rs and related versions
Serial number
17280274
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1997
Transponder code
A12158 (octal 50220530)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 30, 2026
Expires
April 30, 2033
Last FAA action
April 30, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · December 11, 1997
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00666701

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Spinnaker Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
5260 Central Pkwy Hngr 14
Conroe, TX 77303-2004

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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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N172HP, 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 Spinnaker Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 30, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 11, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17280274 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N172HP 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N172HP. 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 August 27, 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