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N6230D

Cessna 172N

Valid Utah

N6230D is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Usda Aphis Wildlife Services, a government body in Cedar City, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 26, 2011 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 23, 1979.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172N · all 172Ns and related versions
Serial number
17272648
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1979
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A823BE (octal 52021676)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 26, 2011
Expires
May 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · April 23, 1979
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00301606

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Usda Aphis Wildlife Services
Type
Government
Address
Aviation Training & Operations
1223 N Airport Rd
Cedar City, UT 84721-8412

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N6230D, 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 Usda Aphis Wildlife Services, a government body, certificate issued May 26, 2011, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 23, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17272648 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N6230D 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N6230D: Accident on June 8, 1991 at Thermal, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

LAX91LA255Accident on June 8, 1991 at Thermal, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172N · operated under 091

THE PARTIAL FAILURE OF THE ENGINE/POWERPLANT FROM A WORN INTAKE VALVE AND THE FAILURE OF COMPANY/OPERATOR MANAGEMENT TO PERFORM AN OVERHAUL ON THE ENGINE WITHIN THE TIME FRAME RECOMMENDED BY THE ENGINE MANUFACTURER.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX91LA255 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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