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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172I · all 172Is and related versions
- Serial number
- 17257124
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-E2D · 150 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A5A3E4 (octal 51321744)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 8, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 8, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · July 6, 1968
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00523134
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hibdon Repair LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 402 M Ave
Grundy Center, IA 50638-1723
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 · 3 clear
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.
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 172I · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN87LA128 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