Cessna 120
N2896N is a Cessna 120, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Greenfield, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 24, 2001 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 27, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 120 · all 120s and related versions
- Serial number
- 13157
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A2F2A1 (octal 50571241)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 24, 2001
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 27, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00880603
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pfeiffer Michael D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 823 E Ridge Dr
Greenfield, IN 46140-8713
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 N2896N, 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 Pfeiffer Michael D, an individual, certificate issued April 24, 2001, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 27, 1956, 9 years after the 1947 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 13157 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2896N 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 N2896N: Accident on October 22, 1986 at Decatur, IL: 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 120 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI87LA006 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