Cessna 172N
N6466D 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 Valley River Leasing INC, a corporation in Murphy, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 16, 2005 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 31, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17272817
- 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
- A87EB3 (octal 52077263)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 16, 2005
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 31, 1979
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00152406
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Valley River Leasing INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 129
Murphy, NC 28906-0129
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.
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The public federal record on N6466D, 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 Valley River Leasing INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 16, 2005, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 31, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17272817 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6466D 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 N6466D: Accident on December 11, 1994 at N. Myrtle Beach, SC: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during a crosswind takeoff.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL95LA026 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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