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N172TK

Cessna 172N

Valid Wisconsin

N172TK 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 Rhinelander Flying Service INC, a corporation in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 30, 2003 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 20, 1978.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172N · all 172Ns and related versions
Serial number
17270406
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
A1224E (octal 50221116)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 30, 2003
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · February 20, 1978
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00872307

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rhinelander Flying Service INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 501
Rhinelander, WI 54501-0501

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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 N172TK, 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 Rhinelander Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 30, 2003, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 20, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17270406 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N172TK 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 N172TK. 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 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