Cessna 172N
N4876F is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Costa Air Service LLC, an LLC in Painted Post, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 27, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 15, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17273094
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A605CA (octal 51402712)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 27, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 27, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 15, 1979
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00180415
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Costa Air Service LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 10 Costa Dr
Painted Post, NY 14870-9076
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N4876F, 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 Costa Air Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 27, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 15, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17273094 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4876F 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]
2 NTSB records under N4876F: Accident on July 20, 2017 at Factoryville, PA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 20, 1995 at Factoryville, PA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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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 172 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to attain the proper touchdown point, which resulted in a runway overrun.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA17CA250 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172N · operated under 091
the loss of engine power for undetermined reasons, and the subsequent hard landing by the student pilot.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO95LA069 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data