Cessna 172D
N2710U 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 Cape Aerial Tours DBA, a corporation in Chatham, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 2, 2014 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 11, 1963.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172D · all 172Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 17250310
- 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
- A2AC9E (octal 50526236)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 2, 2014
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 11, 1963
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00703572
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cape Aerial Tours DBA
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 240 George Ryder Rd
Chatham, MA 02633-1617 - Co-owners
- Stick N Rudder Aero Tours
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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 N2710U, 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 Cape Aerial Tours DBA, a corporation, certificate issued December 2, 2014, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated May 11, 1963, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17250310 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2710U 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 N2710U: Accident on June 16, 2024 at Eastham, MA: 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 172 · operated under 091
The pilot’s inadequate preflight inspection of the airplane’s fuel quantity, which resulted in total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion.
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