Cessna 172K
N172NS is a Cessna 172K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1969. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Wings Over Texas Holdings LLC, an LLC in Denton, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 10, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 22, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172K · all 172Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 17257968
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A121D8 (octal 50220730)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 10, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 22, 1994
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00785052
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wings Over Texas Holdings LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4849 Spartan Dr
Denton, TX 76207-4548
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.
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The public federal record on N172NS, 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 Wings Over Texas Holdings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 10, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 22, 1994, 25 years after the 1969 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17257968 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N172NS 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 N172NS: Accident on January 6, 1996 at Park City, MT: no 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 172K · operated under 091
Inadequate visual lookout by the pilot, and his failure to maintain sufficient altitude/clearance from the transmission line.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA96LA041 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 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