Cessna 172M
N5242R 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 an individual in Elkton, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 5, 2020 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 25, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17263456
- 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
- A69A78 (octal 51515170)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 5, 2020
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 13, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · June 25, 1974
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00662445
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Proctor Daniel L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 108 Bunny Ln
Elkton, VA 22827-2785
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 N5242R, 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 Proctor Daniel L, an individual, certificate issued October 5, 2020, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated June 25, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17263456 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5242R 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 N5242R: Accident on March 19, 1999 at Reno, NV: 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 172M · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate compensation for the crosswind condition and his failure to maintain runway alignment during the crosswind landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX99LA123 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