Cessna 172
N172TP is a Cessna 172, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Contrail Aviation INC, a corporation in Cheboygan, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 23, 2016 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated February 18, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172 · all 172s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28401
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A12252 (octal 50221122)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 23, 2016
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- October 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · February 18, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00801615
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Contrail Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 4275 Orchard Beach Rd
Cheboygan, MI 49721-9595
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N172TP, 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 Contrail Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 23, 2016, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated February 18, 1956, consistent with the 1956 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28401 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N172TP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172P (serial 17274514, cancelled June 4, 1993). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N172TP. 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