Cessna 172M
N20488 is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1973. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Aurora 17 Holdings LLC, an LLC in Aurora, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 22, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17261331
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A1A470 (octal 50322160)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 28, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 28, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · January 22, 1973
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00621102
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aurora 17 Holdings LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 22785 Airport Rd NE
Aurora, OR 97002-9536
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N20488, 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 Aurora 17 Holdings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 28, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 22, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17261331 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N20488 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Welch OW5M (serial 125, cancelled October 22, 1951). 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]
2 NTSB records under N20488: Accident on October 2, 2015 at Mcminnville, OR: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on March 28, 2006 at Aurora, OR: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172M · operated under 091
The flight instructor's failure to correct the student pilot's approach path during the final approach, which resulted in a collision with runway threshold lights. Contributing to the accident was the student pilot's failure to attain and maintain the recommended approach path.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16CA011 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
The student pilot's misjudgment of the landing flare resulting in a hard landing. A related factor was the crosswind.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA06CA082 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
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