Cessna 172P
N65798 is a Cessna 172P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Phoenix, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 19, 2018 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 4, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17275894
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A8AA6F (octal 52125157)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 19, 2018
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · January 4, 1983
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00942746
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Samons David M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 41813
Phoenix, AZ 85080-1813
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N65798, 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 Samons David M, an individual, certificate issued June 19, 2018, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 4, 1983, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17275894 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N65798 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Rockwell International Corp NA-265-60 (serial 306-107, cancelled September 5, 1975). 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]
1 NTSB record under N65798: Incident on September 6, 1985 at Scammon Bay, AK: no injuries, minor 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 C-172P · operated under 135
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC85IA172 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