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N7668X

Cessna 172B

Valid Kansas

N7668X is a Cessna 172B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Newton, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 5, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 10, 1960.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172B · all 172Bs and related versions
Serial number
17248168
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1960
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
AA5B58 (octal 52455530)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 5, 2022
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · December 10, 1960
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00253357

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ekerberg Mark J
Type
Individual
Address
1204 Parkwood Ln
Newton, KS 67114-4838

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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N7668X, 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 Ekerberg Mark J, an individual, certificate issued December 5, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated December 10, 1960, consistent with the 1960 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17248168 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7668X 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N7668X. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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