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N196ME

Cessna 172S

N196ME is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Elk Grove, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 9, 2012 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 15, 2000.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172S · all 172Ss and related versions
Serial number
172S8471
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2000
Transponder code
A17F8D (octal 50277615)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 9, 2012
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · May 15, 2000
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00095670

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Pacific Lease
Type
Co-owned
Address
9523 Portside Ln
Elk Grove, CA 95758-4625
Co-owners
Schach Rolland S / Schach Frances M

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 N196ME, 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 Pacific Lease, a co-owned, certificate issued April 9, 2012, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 15, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8471 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N196ME 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 N196ME. 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