Cessna 172M
N61972 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 Smtm Holdings INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 19, 2019 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 7, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17264928
- 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
- A81395 (octal 52011625)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 19, 2019
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- December 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 7, 1975
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00931486
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smtm Holdings INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 108 W 13Th St Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19801-1145
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N61972, 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 Smtm Holdings INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 19, 2019, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 7, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17264928 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N61972 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 N61972: Accident on April 5, 2026 at Lakeland, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172M · operated under 091
On April 05, 2026, at 0007 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 172M airplane, N61972, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Lakeland, Florida. The pilot and certified flight instructor (CFI) rated passenger were uninjured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot reported that he was conducting touch-and-go landings at Lakeland Linder International Airport (LAL), Lakeland, Florida. About 3 to 4 seconds after his ninth takeoff, the airplane pitched up uncontrollably to an unusually high attitude. The pilot at…
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data