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N72675

Cessna 172S

N72675 is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Chapel Hill Flying Club INC DBA, a corporation in Sanford, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 2006 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 24, 2001.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172S · all 172Ss and related versions
Serial number
172S8977
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2001
Transponder code
A9BD41 (octal 52336501)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 24, 2006
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · October 24, 2001
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00363927

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Chapel Hill Flying Club INC DBA
Type
Corporation
Address
702 Rod Sullivan Rd
Sanford, NC 27330-9283
Co-owners
Wings Of Carolina Flying Club

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 1

1954-09-20Cessna 140 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N72675, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Chapel Hill Flying Club INC DBA, a corporation, certificate issued February 24, 2006, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 24, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8977 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N72675 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 140 (serial 9851, cancelled September 20, 1954). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N72675: Accident on April 10, 2006 at Sanford, NC: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ATL06CA062Accident on April 10, 2006 at Sanford, NC: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna C-172S · operated under 091

The pilot's improper landing flare which resulted in a hard landing.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL06CA062 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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