Cessna 172S
N386SP is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Usaf Academy Aero Club, a government body in Usaf Academy, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 18, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 25, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S8283
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A47332 (octal 51071462)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 18, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 18, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 25, 1999
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00595902
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Usaf Academy Aero Club
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 9222 Airfield Dr Ste 1
Usaf Academy, CO 80840
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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 N386SP, 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 Usaf Academy Aero Club, a government body, certificate issued October 18, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 25, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8283 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N386SP 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 N386SP: Accident on May 29, 2026 at Colorado Springs, CO: 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 172S · operated under 091
The student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during the takeoff, which resulted in a runway excursion and collision with runway signs.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN26LA210 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