Cessna 172N
N717RF is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Wings Flight Enterprises INC, a corporation in Danville, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 1, 1977. 2 documents are on file: loan or lien (security agreement), loan release.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17269901
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A9978B (octal 52313613)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 16, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 1, 1977
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00172227
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wings Flight Enterprises INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 420 Airport Rd
Danville, KY 40422
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N717RF, 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 Wings Flight Enterprises INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 16, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 1, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17269901 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N717RF according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 24, 2026), and 1 release. The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N717RF. 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