Cessna 172M
N20312 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 Cardinal Wings Aviation LLC, an LLC in Buckner, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 7, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 15, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17261182
- 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
- A19FBE (octal 50317676)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 7, 2019
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 15, 1972
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00311022
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cardinal Wings Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 293
Buckner, KY 40010-0293
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N20312, 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 Cardinal Wings Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 7, 2019, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 15, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17261182 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N20312 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft A (serial 413, cancelled October 6, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N20312: Accident on January 30, 2022 at Louisville, KY: 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 failure to maintain directional control during landing in cross wind conditions.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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