Cessna 172
N4282F is a Cessna 172, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pacific Palisades, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 18, 2018 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 31, 1958.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172 · all 172s and related versions
- Serial number
- 46182
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1958
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A51BFB (octal 51215773)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 18, 2018
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · October 31, 1958
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00871944
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thomas Christopher D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 549 El Medio Ave
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272-4223
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.
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N4282F, 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 Thomas Christopher D, an individual, certificate issued September 18, 2018, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated October 31, 1958, consistent with the 1958 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 46182 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4282F 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 N4282F: Accident on September 22, 2025 at Yakataga, 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 172 · operated under 091
The total loss of engine power due to carburetor icing and the pilot’s failure to effectively use carburetor heat in meteorological conditions conducive to the formation of carburetor icing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC25LA112 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