Cessna 172K
N7085G is a Cessna 172K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1969. It has 4 seats. It is registered to , an LLC. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 8, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172K · all 172Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 17258785
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A97554 (octal 52272524)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 30, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 8, 1969
- FAA region
- —
- FAA record id
- 00681087
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Withheld at the owner's request
- Type
- LLC
- Address
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N7085G, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an LLC, certificate issued January 30, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 8, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17258785 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7085G 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 N7085G: Accident on December 19, 2024 at Southport, NC: 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 172K · operated under 091
The pilot’s loss of aircraft control due to spatial disorientation, and the flight instructor’s inadequate supervision, which resulted in the subsequent overstress of the airplane during recovery.
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
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