Cessna 172N
N272DK 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 an individual in Hilmar, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 28, 2012 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 15, 1978. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17271857
- 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
- A2AE3F (octal 50527077)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 28, 2012
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 15, 1978
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00603105
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kroutil David W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8718 Villa Cordoba Ave
Hilmar, CA 95324-8805
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 1
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The public federal record on N272DK, 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 Kroutil David W, an individual, certificate issued August 28, 2012, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 15, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17271857 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N272DK according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 1, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N272DK. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data