Cessna 172
N6742A is a Cessna 172, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 16, 2007 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 1, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172 · all 172s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28842
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A8ED33 (octal 52166463)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 16, 2007
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 1, 1956
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00173346
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bouton Vern H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 790 Cessna Way
Fairbanks, AK 99712-1423
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N6742A, 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 Bouton Vern H, an individual, certificate issued July 16, 2007, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated June 1, 1956, consistent with the 1956 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28842 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6742A according to the deregistered file. [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 N6742A: Accident on November 11, 1991 at Moose Pass, AK: 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 PILOT'S PREMATURE LIFT-OFF, CAUSING THE AIRPLANE TO SETTLE BACK TO THE GROUND. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE PILOT'S LOSS OF DIRECTIONAL CONTROL AFTER SETTLING BACK ON THE RUNWAY, DUE TO HIS VISIBILITY BEING RESTRICTED BY FROST ON THE WINDSHIELD.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC92LA017 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data