Cessna 172RG
N4856V is a Cessna 172RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 1993 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 25, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172RG · all 172RGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 172RG0401
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A5FE6A (octal 51377152)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 13, 1993
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 25, 1980
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00070355
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Colombie Michael A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6811 Round Tree Dr
Anchorage, AK 99507-7020
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4856V, 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 Colombie Michael A, an individual, certificate issued April 13, 1993, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 25, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172RG0401 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4856V was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bellanca 17-30 (serial 30114, cancelled March 12, 1971); Consolidated Vultee PBY-5A (serial 48441, cancelled August 12, 1952). 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]
2 NTSB records under N4856V: Accident on August 19, 1986 at Kotlik, AK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on January 7, 1984 at Big Lake, 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172RGII · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC86LA131 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172RG · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC84LA029 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