Cessna 172S
N66046 is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Palm Beach Flight Training CORP, a corporation in Lantana, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 26, 2015 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 11, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S9786
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A8B73C (octal 52133474)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 26, 2015
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 11, 2005
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00161139
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Palm Beach Flight Training CORP
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2633 Lantana Rd Ste 42
Lantana, FL 33462-2490
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N66046, 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 Palm Beach Flight Training CORP, a corporation, certificate issued March 26, 2015, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 11, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9786 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N66046 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 150M (serial 15075798, cancelled July 21, 1977); Consolidated Vultee BT-13A (serial 5247, cancelled October 13, 1955). 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 N66046: Accident on March 17, 2020 at West Palm Beach, FL: 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 failure of the nosewheel steerage linkage during takeoff, which resulted in a loss of directional control and impact with an obstacle during an attempted aborted landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA20CA130 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