Textron Aviation Inc 172S
N20707 is a Textron Aviation Inc 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2020. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Atpce LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2020 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 29, 2020.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 172 Skyhawk family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 172S12562
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- A1AE7C (octal 50327174)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 9, 2020
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 29, 2020
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01311906
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Atpce LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 251 Little Falls Dr
Wilmington, DE 19808-1674
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 3
Connections how N20707 links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,678 registered
- Textron Aviation Inc 4,418 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360-L2A 2,645 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Atpce LLC 18 aircraft in the fleet
- Wilmington, DE 7,375 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,964 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 4,219 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 857 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360-L2A 26 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360-L2A 992 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N20707, 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 Atpce LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 9, 2020, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 29, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S12562 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N20707 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Ghiles P/American Ghiles Acft LAFAYETTE STORK CL (serial AGA17FLYCL223, cancelled June 4, 2013); Raytheon Aircraft Company 1900D (serial UE292, cancelled December 17, 1997); Cessna 182P (serial 18261143, cancelled October 11, 1994). 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 N20707: Accident on July 30, 1994 at Livermore, CA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182P · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN AN ADEQUATE AIRSPEED MARGIN WHILE MANEUVERING AND HIS SUBSEQUENT ENTRY INTO AN INADVERTENT STALL/MUSH. A FACTOR WAS FUEL STARVATION DUE TO THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO SELECT THE PROPER FUEL TANK.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data