Cessna 172D
N2681U is a Cessna 172D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1963. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Petersburg, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 7, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 23, 1963.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172D · all 172Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 17250281
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1963
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A29F43 (octal 50517503)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 7, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 7, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 23, 1963
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00363472
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Osterhaus Jonathan
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 211 Richmond Cemetery Rd
Petersburg, TN 37144-8600
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 N2681U, 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 Osterhaus Jonathan, an individual, certificate issued March 7, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated April 23, 1963, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17250281 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2681U 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 N2681U: Accident on March 9, 1996 at Macon, GA: 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 172D · operated under 091
The pilot's improper planning/decision, which resulted in fuel exhaustion. A factor relating to the accident was: the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL96LA060 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