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N75716

Cessna 172N

Valid Wisconsin

N75716 is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to West Bend Air INC, a corporation in West Bend, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 17, 1997 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 2, 1976.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172N · all 172Ns and related versions
Serial number
17267897
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
4
Year built
1976
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
AA36A4 (octal 52433244)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 17, 1997
Expires
April 30, 2029
Last FAA action
July 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · October 2, 1976
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00722917

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
West Bend Air INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 409
West Bend, WI 53095-0409

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N75716, 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 West Bend Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 17, 1997, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 2, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17267897 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N75716 according to the deregistered file. [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 N75716: Accident on January 24, 1988 at Fond Du Lac, WI: 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

CHI88LA051Accident on January 24, 1988 at Fond Du Lac, WI: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 67897

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172N · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI88LA051 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