Cessna 172K
N7209G 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 Elite Planes LLC, an LLC in Menifee, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 6, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 30, 1970. 2 documents are on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership), loan or lien (security agreement).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172K · all 172Ks and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe 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
- 17258909
- 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
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A9A726 (octal 52323446)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 6, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 6, 2026
- 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 · January 30, 1970
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00621377
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elite Planes LLC
- 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
- 26822 Cherry Hills Blvd Unit 985
Menifee, CA 92586-7041
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
Connections how N7209G links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,683 registered
- Cessna 72,685 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-320 series 27,303 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Elite Planes LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Menifee, CA 40 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,727 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 4,220 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 857 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
- Where N7209G is now · Last seen yesterday at 1:22 pm.
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The public federal record on N7209G, 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 Elite Planes LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 6, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 30, 1970, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17258909 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7209G according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (October 28, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N7209G. 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 November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data