Cessna R172E
N43860 is a Cessna R172E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Friends Of Army Aviation, a corporation in Ozark, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 8, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 29, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- R172E · all R172Es and related versions
- Serial number
- R172-0124
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A54419 (octal 51242031)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 8, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 8, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 29, 1977
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00192304
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Friends Of Army Aviation
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 189 Heritage Way
Ozark, AL 36360-2801
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N43860, 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 Friends Of Army Aviation, a corporation, certificate issued March 8, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial R172-0124 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N43860 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft BC12-D (serial 7519, cancelled October 10, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N43860: Accident on July 15, 2002 at Barre, VT: 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 pilot's failure to maintain airspeed during a go-around attempt, which resulted in an inadvertent stall and a subsequent impact with trees. A factor was the pilot's delayed initiation of the go-around.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for IAD02LA077 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