Cessna 172K
N46342 is a Cessna 172K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1968. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hopeston, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 13, 2001 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 16, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172K · all 172Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 17257196
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A5A7BF (octal 51323677)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 13, 2001
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 16, 1968
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00113184
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gernand Charles E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- Rt 1 #38634
Hopeston, IL 60942
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N46342, 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 Gernand Charles E, an individual, certificate issued July 13, 2001, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 16, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17257196 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N46342 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N46342. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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