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N66168

Cessna 172P

N66168 is a Cessna 172P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1983. It has 4 seats. It is registered to C P Aviation, a corporation in Santa Paula, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 2, 2005 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 22, 1983.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172P · all 172Ps and related versions
Serial number
17275974
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1983
Transponder code
A8BB3B (octal 52135473)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 2, 2005
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · April 22, 1983
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00702916

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
C P Aviation
Type
Corporation
Address
830 E Santa Maria St Ste 301
Santa Paula, CA 93060-3699

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N66168, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to C P Aviation, a corporation, certificate issued August 2, 2005, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 22, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17275974 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N66168 according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N66168. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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