Cessna 172N
N2720E is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to American Patrols INC, a corporation in Midland, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 31, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 16, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17271305
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A2B047 (octal 50530107)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 31, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 31, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 16, 1978
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00133582
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Patrols INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 10306 S County Road 1210
Midland, TX 79706-7820
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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 N2720E, 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 American Patrols INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 31, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 16, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17271305 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2720E 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 N2720E: Accident on July 8, 1989 at Glenwood Spgs, CO: 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
INADEQUATE COMPENSATION FOR WIND CONDITIONS BY THE DUAL STUDENT, RESULTING IN A LOSS OF CONTROL AND A FORCED LANDING. THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND, CFI, FAILED TO ADEQUATELY SUPERVISE THE OPERATION.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN89LA166 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