Cessna 172M
N5205R is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1974. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Valley Pilots Flying Club INC, a corporation in Martinez, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 4, 1974 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 18, 1974. 2 documents are on file: 2 × bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17263422
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A68C05 (octal 51506005)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 4, 1974
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · June 18, 1974
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00362325
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Valley Pilots Flying Club INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 2242
Martinez, CA 94553-0224
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 2
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N5205R, 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 Valley Pilots Flying Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 4, 1974, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated June 18, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17263422 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5205R according to the deregistered file. [2]
2 documents received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 21, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 22, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5205R. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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