Cessna 172I
N46231 is a Cessna 172I, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Hibdon Repair LLC, an LLC in Grundy Center, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 8, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 6, 1968.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172I · all 172Is and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 172 Skyhawk family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 17257124
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-E2D · 150 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A5A3E4 (octal 51321744)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 8, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 8, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 6, 1968
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00523134
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hibdon Repair LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 402 M Ave
Grundy Center, IA 50638-1723
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N46231 links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,687 registered
- Cessna 72,682 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-320-E2D 258 aircraft with this engine series · 150 hp
- Hibdon Repair LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Grundy Center, IA 1 aircraft registered in this town
- Grundy Center Municipal · 6K7
- Iowa 4,514 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 4,220 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 857 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320-E2D 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320-E2D 494 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N46231.json.
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The public federal record on N46231, 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 Hibdon Repair LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 8, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 6, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17257124 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N46231 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR (serial 2082, cancelled May 20, 1965). 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 N46231: Accident on May 20, 1987 at Taos, NM: 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.
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172I · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data