Cessna 172S
N172ZF is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ankeny, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 7, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 2, 2000. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S8451
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A122E0 (octal 50221340)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 7, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 7, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 2, 2000
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00975670
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wangsness Jeff John
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4780 SE Four Mile Dr
Ankeny, IA 50021-7412
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
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The public federal record on N172ZF, 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 Wangsness Jeff John, an individual, certificate issued April 7, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8451 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N172ZF according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 22, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N172ZF. 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