Cessna 172N
N64SF is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Safe Flight Instrument CORP, a corporation in White Plains, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 15, 2014 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development; market survey, dated September 26, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17268706
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-D2J · 160 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A86478 (octal 52062170)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 15, 2014
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development; Market survey · September 26, 2025
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00241947
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Safe Flight Instrument CORP
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 20 New King St
White Plains, NY 10604-1204
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N64SF, 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 Safe Flight Instrument CORP, a corporation, certificate issued May 15, 2014, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 26, 2025, 48 years after the 1977 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17268706 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N64SF was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Aerofab Inc LAKE 250 (serial 112, cancelled April 28, 2006); Aerospatiale AS350B1 ECUREUIL (serial 2148, cancelled October 22, 1991). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
2 NTSB records under N64SF: Accident on October 6, 2003 at Laconia, NH: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 29, 1991 at Walton, OR: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lake LA250 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper starting procedure. A factor in the accident was the pilot's lack of recent experience in make and model airplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC04CA002 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerospatiale 350 B1 · operated under 135
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN CLEARANCE FROM TERRAIN.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA91FA223 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