Cessna 172R
N26499 is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Advanced Aviation Group LLC, an LLC in Frederick, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 31, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 19, 1999.
Where is it now Last seen Sunday at 8:54 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172R · all 172Rs 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
- 17280730
- 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 I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A2918E (octal 50510616)
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 31, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 31, 2024
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 19, 1999
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00295842
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Advanced Aviation Group LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- 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
- 330 Aviation Way
Frederick, MD 21701-4794
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
Connections how N26499 links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,675 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360 series 8,562 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Advanced Aviation Group LLC 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
- Frederick, MD 100 aircraft registered in this town
- Frederick Municipal · FDK
- Maryland 2,344 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 series 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360 series 39 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Firewall, cracked · 2003-02-14
- Where N26499 is now · Last seen Sunday at 8:54 am.
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The public federal record on N26499, 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 Advanced Aviation Group LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 31, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 19, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17280730 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N26499 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Midwestsailplanes MI-1 (serial 2, cancelled September 28, 1948). 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 N26499: Accident on November 16, 2015 at Westminster, MD: 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 student pilot's failure to maintain pitch control during the landing, which resulted in a hard landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data