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N64270

Cessna 172M

N64270 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 Sundance Aviation INC, a corporation in Richland, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. 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
17265142
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
A8700F (octal 52070017)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 12, 2021
Expires
March 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · April 7, 1975
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00602246

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sundance Aviation INC
Type
Corporation
Address
1903 Terminal Dr
Richland, WA 99354-4924

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

1955-11-15Consolidated Vultee BT-13A · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N64270, 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 Sundance Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 12, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 7, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17265142 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N64270 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Consolidated Vultee BT-13A (serial 8543, cancelled November 15, 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 N64270: Accident on January 22, 2012 at Richland, WA: 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

WPR12CA079Accident on January 22, 2012 at Richland, WA: no injuries, substantial damage.

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

The student pilot's improper landing flare and inadequate directional control during landing.

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 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data