Cessna 172S
N66068 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 Phoenix East Aviation LLC, an LLC in Daytona Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 5, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 16, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S9790
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A8B784 (octal 52133604)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 5, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 5, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 16, 2005
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00161459
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Phoenix East Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 561 Pearl Harbor Dr
Daytona Beach, FL 32114-3845
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 N66068, 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 Phoenix East Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 5, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 16, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9790 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N66068 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172P (serial 17275958, cancelled March 25, 1991); Consolidated Vultee BT-13A (serial 11661, cancelled March 14, 1956). 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 N66068: Accident on August 13, 1990 at Ridge Spring, 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 FAILURE OF THE MAINTENANCE FACILITY/OWNER TO FOLLOW STANDARD PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE PROCEDURES. A FACTOR WAS THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO EXTEND THE FLAPS DURING THE FORCED LANDING.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL90LA159 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