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N6179E

Cessna 172

N6179E is a Cessna 172, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Advance, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 30, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 22, 1958.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172 · all 172s and related versions
Serial number
46279
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1958
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A80C57 (octal 52006127)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 30, 2019
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · November 22, 1958
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00431416

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Holland Frederic A
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 123
Advance, NC 27006-0123

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N6179E, 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 Holland Frederic A, an individual, certificate issued December 30, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated November 22, 1958, consistent with the 1958 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 46279 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N6179E according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N6179E. 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