Cessna 172
N6000A is a Cessna 172, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Oregon City, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 6, 1997 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 26, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172 · all 172s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28600
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A7C998 (octal 51744630)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 6, 1997
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 26, 1956
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00310806
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Richards John M
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 14314 S Spangler Rd
Oregon City, OR 97045-9536 - Co-owners
- Richards Pauline L
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 N6000A, 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 Richards John M, a co-owned, certificate issued December 6, 1997, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated March 26, 1956, consistent with the 1956 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28600 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6000A 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 N6000A: Accident on October 21, 2005 at Gleneden Beach, OR: 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 172 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from objects while maneuvering over the airport environment. Dark night conditions, trees, and ground fog were factors.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA06LA012 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