Cessna 172B
N6879X is a Cessna 172B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Farr West, Utah. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 31, 1960. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172B · all 172Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17247779
- 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
- A920E1 (octal 52220341)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- February 16, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · October 31, 1960
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00420157
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1372 W 1800 N
Farr West, UT 84404-2826
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 1
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The public federal record on N6879X, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate, dated October 31, 1960, consistent with the 1960 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17247779 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6879X according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 30, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N6879X. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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