Cessna 172E
N2985U is a Cessna 172E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1963. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Connersville Flying Club INC, a corporation in Connersville, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 5, 2003 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 4, 1963.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172E · all 172Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 17250585
- 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
- A3164C (octal 50613114)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 5, 2003
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 4, 1963
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00540853
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Connersville Flying Club INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 500 Airport Dr
Connersville, IN 47331-7731
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 N2985U, 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 Connersville Flying Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 5, 2003, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 4, 1963, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17250585 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2985U 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 N2985U: Accident on April 22, 2006 at Richmond, IN: 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 172E · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate compensation for wind conditions during the landing. Factors were the crosswind and gusts.
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