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N20218

Cessna 172M

Valid Kansas

N20218 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 Emporia Flying Club INC, a corporation in Emporia, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 29, 2015 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 24, 1972.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172M · all 172Ms and related versions
Serial number
17261104
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
A19C0D (octal 50316015)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 29, 2015
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · October 24, 1972
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00600992

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Emporia Flying Club INC
Type
Corporation
Address
1005 Road 120
Emporia, KS 66801-7760

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N20218, 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 Emporia Flying Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 29, 2015, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 24, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17261104 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N20218 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N20218: Accident on July 14, 1984 at Southgate, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CHI84LA295Accident on July 14, 1984 at Southgate, MI: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 172-61104

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172M · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI84LA295 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 August 27, 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