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N5378R

Cessna 172F

Valid Alaska

N5378R 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 co-owned owners in Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 17, 2020 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 27, 1965. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172F · all 172Fs and related versions
Serial number
17252912
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
A6CDEE (octal 51546756)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 17, 2020
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 13, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · April 27, 1965
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
00602925

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gittlein Paul A
Type
Co-owned
Address
PO Box 871546
Wasilla, AK 99687-1546
Co-owners
Gittlein Trudi D

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 1

2026-09-11Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N5378R, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Gittlein Paul A, a co-owned, certificate issued March 17, 2020, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 27, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17252912 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5378R according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 11, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5378R. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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