Cessna 172L
N178KA is a Cessna 172L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Oakland, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 27, 1993 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 13, 1971.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172L · all 172Ls and related versions
- Serial number
- 17260069
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A137C7 (octal 50233707)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 27, 1993
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 13, 1971
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00732460
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Swartzentruber Robert
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6149 Garrett Hwy
Oakland, MD 21550-2201
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N178KA, 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 Swartzentruber Robert, an individual, certificate issued October 27, 1993, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 13, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17260069 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N178KA 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N178KA. 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