Cessna 172R
N2621Z is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Wifa (Washington International Flight Academy) LLC, an LLC in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 20, 2016 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 10, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172R · all 172Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17280559
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A288FE (octal 50504376)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 20, 2016
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- March 31, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · July 10, 1998
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00843646
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wifa (Washington International Flight Academy) LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7940 Airpark Rd
Gaithersburg, MD 20879-4176
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 N2621Z, 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 Wifa (Washington International Flight Academy) LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 20, 2016, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 10, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17280559 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2621Z 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]
1 NTSB record under N2621Z: Accident on January 26, 2007 at Olathe, KS: 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 172R · operated under 091
The pilot's improper flare during landing and failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll. Factors were the gusting winds and the crosswinds.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN07CA056 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
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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