Cessna 172L
N7216Q is a Cessna 172L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kenilworth, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 24, 2014 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 14, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172L · all 172Ls and related versions
- Serial number
- 17260516
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A9AA7C (octal 52325174)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 24, 2014
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 14, 1972
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00071397
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elias Close Deanna
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 639 Ivy Ct
Kenilworth, IL 60043-1131
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.
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The public federal record on N7216Q, 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 Elias Close Deanna, an individual, certificate issued October 24, 2014, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 14, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17260516 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7216Q 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 N7216Q: Accident on September 29, 1996 at Delavan, WI: 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 172L · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to assure the airplane was properly secured prior to hand-propping the engine.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI96LA354 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