Cessna 172P
N216AF is a Cessna 172P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Armed Forces Aero Club INC, a corporation in San Diego, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 23, 1983 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 25, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17274165
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A1CFD2 (octal 50347722)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 23, 1983
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 25, 1980
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00782202
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Armed Forces Aero Club INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 8908 Aero Drive
San Diego, CA 92193
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.
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The public federal record on N216AF, 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 Armed Forces Aero Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 23, 1983, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 25, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17274165 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N216AF 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]
2 NTSB records under N216AF: Accident on May 28, 2012 at Hemet, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 14, 2011 at San Diego, CA: 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 172P · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to monitor and maintain clearance from an obstacle during taxi.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172P · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to maintain clearance from obstacles while taxiing.
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 September 30, 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