Cessna 172B
N7697X is a Cessna 172B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in San Marcos, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 15, 1994 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 29, 1961.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172B · all 172Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17248197
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AA665A (octal 52463132)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 15, 1994
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 29, 1961
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00323427
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Decker Sidney R
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 403 Scull Rd
San Marcos, TX 78666-1666 - Co-owners
- Decker Ramona S
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 N7697X, 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 Decker Sidney R, a co-owned, certificate issued November 15, 1994, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated April 29, 1961, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17248197 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7697X 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 N7697X: Accident on December 7, 1994 at Seguin, TX: 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 172B · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO ATTAIN PROPER TOUCHDOWN POINT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW95LA062 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