Cessna 172F
N5229F 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 Clovis, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 2, 1971 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated January 15, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172F · all 172Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17253280
- 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
- A693F5 (octal 51511765)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 2, 1971
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- October 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · January 15, 1997
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00492405
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United States Air Force Owner
- Type
- Government
- Address
- Cannon Air Force Base-Operator
110 Alison Ave E Bldg 600 Ste2060
Clovis, NM 88103 - Co-owners
- March 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 N5229F, 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 December 2, 1971, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 15, 1997, 32 years after the 1965 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17253280 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5229F 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 N5229F: Accident on September 12, 2019 at Hemet, CA: 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 172F · operated under PUBU
The flight instructor's improper decision to perform a precautionary landing on unsuitable terrain, which resulted in a noseover.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA19CA544 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
