Cessna 120
N3008N 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 King Salmon, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 10, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 5, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 120 · all 120s and related versions
- Serial number
- 13266
- 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
- A322CF (octal 50621317)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 10, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 5, 1972
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00560166
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Forthofer Richard
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 563
King Salmon, AK 99613-0563
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 N3008N, 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 Forthofer Richard, an individual, certificate issued December 10, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 5, 1972, 25 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 13266 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3008N 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 N3008N: Accident on April 13, 1986 at Lake George, AK: 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 ANC86LA044 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
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