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N66AA

Cessna 172N

N66AA 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 Lift Aviation LLC, an LLC in Kingston, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 6, 1977.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172N · all 172Ns and related versions
Serial number
17270025
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1977
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A8B1E1 (octal 52130741)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 22, 2026
Expires
January 31, 2033
Last FAA action
January 22, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · December 6, 1977
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00212717

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lift Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
166 Main St
Kingston, MA 02364-2234

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

2013-04-30Anderson SKYBOLT · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N66AA, 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 Lift Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 22, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 6, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17270025 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N66AA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Anderson SKYBOLT (serial 7865783, cancelled April 30, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N66AA: Accident on June 22, 1985 at Escanaba, MI: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CHI85LA246Accident on June 22, 1985 at Escanaba, MI: minor injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 7865783

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Anderson Aircraft Corp. SKYBOLT · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI85LA246 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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