Cessna 172P
N51996 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 Skywarrior Flight Training INC, a corporation in Pensacola, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 11, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17274392
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A68690 (octal 51503220)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 2020
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 11, 1980
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00372275
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Skywarrior Flight Training INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 4211 Maygarden Rd
Pensacola, FL 32504
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 N51996, 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 Skywarrior Flight Training INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 26, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 11, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17274392 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51996 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild M-62A (serial T43-5652, cancelled May 20, 1965). 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 N51996: Accident on July 18, 2000 at Jesup, GA: 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
The failure of the student pilot to maintain directional control during takeoff resulting in an excursion off the runway and collision with adjacent foliage. A factor in the accident was the student's decision to takeoff downwind.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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