Cessna 172L
N243W is a Cessna 172L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dalhart, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 13, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 29, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172L · all 172Ls and related versions
- Serial number
- 17260205
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A23D18 (octal 50436430)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 13, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 16, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 29, 1981
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00542034
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Moore William
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1601 Monte Vista St
Dalhart, TX 79022-4818
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N243W, 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 Moore William, an individual, certificate issued January 13, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 29, 1981, 10 years after the 1971 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17260205 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N243W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna A185F (serial 18503820, cancelled January 2, 2018). 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 N243W: Accident on April 25, 2012 at Blanding, UT: fatal, substantial damage (3 fatal). 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 A185F · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain airplane control during low-level maneuvering flight. Contributing to the pilot’s death was the lack of a timely emergency rescue response due to the lack of effective emergency signal transmissions from both the airplane’s emergency locator transmitter and the personal locator device, which were both ejected from the wreckage.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR12FA184 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