Cessna 172F
N5208F is a Cessna 172F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 4 seats. It is registered to United States Air Force Owner, a government body in Beale Afb, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 8, 2000 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 20, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172F · all 172Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17253209
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A68C64 (octal 51506144)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 8, 2000
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 20, 1965
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00992325
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United States Air Force Owner
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 9 Svs/Svra
6000 C Street Room 111
Beale Afb, CA 95903-1615 - Co-owners
- Beale Air Force Base Aero Club Operator
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.
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The public federal record on N5208F, 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 United States Air Force Owner, a government body, certificate issued January 8, 2000, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 20, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17253209 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5208F according to the deregistered file. [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 N5208F: Accident on January 20, 2013 at Marysville, CA: minor 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 172F · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power during initial climb due to fuel starvation, which resulted from maintenance personnel’s improper installation of the fuel selector handle. Contributing to the accident was an incorrectly modified fuel selector handle assembly.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR13LA098 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data