Cessna 172M
N6979H is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1975. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fort Mohave, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 18, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 22, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17265678
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A94852 (octal 52244122)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 18, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 8, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 22, 1975
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00750437
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Whitaker Ian S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2080 E Crystal Dr
Fort Mohave, AZ 86426-8816
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N6979H, 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 Whitaker Ian S, an individual, certificate issued March 18, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 22, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17265678 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6979H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 20224, cancelled April 24, 1967). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N6979H. 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 September 30, 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