Cessna 172M
N20079 is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1972. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Celestial Kinetics Flight Academy LLC, an LLC in Waupaca, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 10, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 22, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17260990
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A19572 (octal 50312562)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 10, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 22, 1972
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00420932
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Celestial Kinetics Flight Academy LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- E2021 N Westgate Acres Rd
Waupaca, WI 54981-8226
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N20079, 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 Celestial Kinetics Flight Academy LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 10, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 22, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17260990 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N20079 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]
1 NTSB record under N20079: Accident on September 20, 2015 at Shiocton, WI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172M · operated under 091
The pilot's decision to continue to land at an unlighted airstrip, at night, after the landing light failed on approach, which resulted in a bounced landing, runway excursion, and collision with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA15CA290 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data