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A Cessna 172 Skyhawk, the same model family as N64198
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N64198

Cessna 172M

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesOregon

N64198 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 Randy Goering INC, a corporation in Bend, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 13, 2012 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 25, 1975.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172M · all 172Ms and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 172 Skyhawk family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
17265080
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1975
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
A86CA6 (octal 52066246)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
September 13, 2012
Expires
September 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 10, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 25, 1975
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00252266

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Randy Goering INC
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
8101 SW Willard
Bend, OR 97701

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1955-10-13Cessna T-50 · Valid registration

Connections how N64198 links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Bend, OR 398 aircraft registered in this town
  • Bend Municipal · BDN
  • Oregon 7,012 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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The public federal record on N64198, 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 Randy Goering INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 13, 2012, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 25, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17265080 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N64198 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna T-50 (serial 6283, cancelled October 13, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N64198: Accident on August 24, 1996 at Truckee, CA: no 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

LAX96LA314Accident on August 24, 1996 at Truckee, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.

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

the student pilot's inadequate compensation for the existing crosswind condition and failure to maintain directional control. The encounter with a ditch was a related factor.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data