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N5045H

Cessna 172M

Valid Montana

N5045H is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1975. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Grabofsky Livestock & Grain INC, a corporation in Hogeland, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 7, 2008 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 30, 1975.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172M · all 172Ms and related versions
Serial number
17265316
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1975
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
A64BDB (octal 51445733)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 7, 2008
Expires
December 31, 2027
Last FAA action
April 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · May 30, 1975
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00711055

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Grabofsky Livestock & Grain INC
Type
Corporation
Address
2980 Mohar Rd
Hogeland, MT 59529-9626

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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

1950-07-17Piper PA-11 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N5045H, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Grabofsky Livestock & Grain INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 7, 2008, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 30, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17265316 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5045H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-11 (serial 11-927, cancelled July 17, 1950). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5045H: Accident on August 3, 1985 at Arcadia, LA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

FTW85LA304Accident on August 3, 1985 at Arcadia, LA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 M · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW85LA304 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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