Cessna 172L
N7221Q 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 Sleeping Giant Flying Club, a corporation in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 22, 1991 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 20, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172L · all 172Ls and related versions
- Serial number
- 17260521
- 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
- A9AD84 (octal 52326604)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 22, 1991
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 20, 1972
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00001407
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sleeping Giant Flying Club
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3080 Airport Rd
Helena, MT 59601
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 N7221Q, 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 Sleeping Giant Flying Club, a corporation, certificate issued April 22, 1991, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 20, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17260521 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7221Q 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 N7221Q: Accident on September 13, 2007 at Helena, MT: 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
unexpected collision with birds on short final that damaged the airplane wing structure.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data