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A Cessna 172 Skyhawk, the same model family as N7108G
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N7108G

Cessna 172K

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesMinnesota

N7108G is a Cessna 172K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Lakes Area Aviation LLC, an LLC in Little Falls, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 23, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 27, 1969.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172K · all 172Ks and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 172 Skyhawk family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
17258808
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A97F84 (octal 52277604)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
January 23, 2024
Expires
January 31, 2031
Last FAA action
January 23, 2024
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 27, 1969
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00510967

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lakes Area Aviation LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
13129 Airport Rd
Little Falls, MN 56345-5777
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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N7108G links to the rest of the register

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The public federal record on N7108G, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Lakes Area Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 23, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17258808 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7108G according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N7108G. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data