Cessna 172M
N71409 is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Piedmont Flight INC, a corporation in Winston Salem, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 4, 2004 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17267227
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A98D63 (octal 52306543)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 4, 2004
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00265988
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Piedmont Flight INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 21565
Winston Salem, NC 27120-1565
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N71409, 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 Piedmont Flight INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 4, 2004, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17267227 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N71409 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 182M (serial 18259613, cancelled June 18, 1969); Luscombe 8A (serial 2836, cancelled July 25, 1951). 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]
2 NTSB records under N71409: Accident on July 1, 2004 at Winston Salem, NC: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 13, 1983 at Ocean Way, 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172M · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from the fence post, while taxing which resulted in a collision.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL04LA167 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172M · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA83LA141 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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