Cessna 172L
N2860Q is a Cessna 172L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Lawton Metropolitan Area Airport Authority, a government body in Lawton, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 10, 2016 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 24, 1971.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172L · all 172Ls and related versions
- Serial number
- 17259860
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A2E6AC (octal 50563254)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 10, 2016
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · June 24, 1971
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00160453
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lawton Metropolitan Area Airport Authority
- Type
- Government
- Address
- PO Box 531
Lawton, OK 73502-0531
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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 N2860Q, 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 Lawton Metropolitan Area Airport Authority, a government body, certificate issued November 10, 2016, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated June 24, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17259860 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2860Q 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 N2860Q: Accident on August 14, 2025 at Walters, OK: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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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 172L · operated under 091
On August 14, 2025, about 0934 central daylight time, a Cessna 172L, N2860Q, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Walters, Oklahoma. The pilot sustained fatal injuries. The airplane was operated under Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations as a Part 91 personal flight. The pilot, who was an independent flight instructor at Lawton-Fort Sill Regional Airport, Lawton (LAW), Oklahoma, was allowed to use the airplane for pilot proficiency purposes by the airport authority. Airport personnel did not know of the pilot’s schedule for any flight training activity on the day of the accid…
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25FA320 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