Cessna 172P
N51238 is a Cessna 172P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Flying G Aviation INC, a corporation in Drayton, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 5, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 13, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17274287
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A66BBF (octal 51465677)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 5, 2021
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 13, 1980
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00411375
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flying G Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 16057 83Rd St NE
Drayton, ND 58225-9700
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 N51238, 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 Flying G Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 5, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 13, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17274287 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51238 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna U206E (serial U20601984, cancelled July 13, 1973). 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 N51238: Accident on January 13, 1986 at Fargo, ND: 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 172P · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN86LA064 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