Cessna 172R
N5178Y is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Southeastern Oklahoma State University, a government body in Durant, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 4, 2002 and expires on October 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172R · all 172Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17281099
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A67EF7 (octal 51477367)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 4, 2002
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00497321
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southeastern Oklahoma State University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- Aviation Sciences Institute
425 W University Blvd
Durant, OK 74701-3347
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N5178Y, 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 Southeastern Oklahoma State University, a government body, certificate issued June 4, 2002, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17281099 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5178Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-250 (serial 272224, cancelled September 11, 1982). 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 N5178Y: Accident on June 21, 2008 at Tishomingo, OK: 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 172R · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control, resulting in an inadvertent stall during the landing flare. Contributing factors in this accident was the terrain-induced turbulence, and the instructor's inadequate supervision of the pilot.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN08LA111 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