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N172LF

Cessna 172N

Valid Missouri

N172LF is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Portage Des Sioux, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 5, 2018 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 11, 1979.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172N · all 172Ns and related versions
Serial number
17273380
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1979
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A1219B (octal 50220633)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 5, 2018
Expires
September 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · October 11, 1979
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00600265

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
St Charles Flying Service INC
Type
Co-owned
Address
6016 Portage Rd
Portage Des Sioux, MO 63373-1008
Co-owners
Bradshaw Aviation Systems LLC

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N172LF, 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 St Charles Flying Service INC, a co-owned, certificate issued September 5, 2018, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated October 11, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17273380 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N172LF 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 N172LF: Accident on November 25, 2006 at Reidsville, NC: 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

ATL07CA022Accident on November 25, 2006 at Reidsville, NC: no injuries, substantial damage.

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

The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during landing roll, which resulted in an on ground collision with trees.

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