Cessna 172N
N172SK is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Houston, Texas. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending, canceled". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 30, 1978. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17271308
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A12235 (octal 50221065)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending, canceled
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- March 1, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 30, 1978
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00340033
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 15 Leeward Ln
Houston, TX 77058-4212
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N172SK, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending, canceled". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 30, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17271308 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N172SK according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 25, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N172SK. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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