Cessna 172A
N6812X is a Cessna 172A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Big Sky Aviation INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 20, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 19, 1960.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172A · all 172As and related versions
- Serial number
- 47712
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1960
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A909A2 (octal 52204642)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 20, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 20, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · July 19, 1960
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00533566
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Big Sky Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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.
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The public federal record on N6812X, 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 Big Sky Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 20, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated July 19, 1960, consistent with the 1960 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 47712 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6812X 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 N6812X: Accident on February 3, 1990 at Pahokee, 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 172A · operated under 091
LOSS OF ENGINE POWER FOR AM UNDETERMINED REASON.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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