Cessna 172M
N61872 is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1975. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Indianapolis, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 13, 1995 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 20, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17264857
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A80FDE (octal 52007736)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 13, 1995
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 20, 1975
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00591456
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Griffith William C III
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3840 E 79Th St
Indianapolis, IN 46240-3457
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 N61872, 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 Griffith William C III, an individual, certificate issued July 13, 1995, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 20, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17264857 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N61872 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N61872. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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