Cessna 172L
N7716G is a Cessna 172L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 4 seats. It is registered to First Eclipse LTD, a non-citizen corporation in Richmond, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 15, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; agriculture and pest control, dated February 5, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172L · all 172Ls and related versions
- Serial number
- 17259416
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AA6FEF (octal 52467757)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 15, 2022
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Agriculture and pest control · February 5, 1976
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00573507
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- First Eclipse LTD
- Type
- Non-citizen corporation
- Address
- 1426 Westover Gardens Blvd
Richmond, VA 23225-4137
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 N7716G, 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 First Eclipse LTD, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued March 15, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 5, 1976, 5 years after the 1971 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17259416 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7716G 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 N7716G: Accident on October 21, 2023 at Richmond, VA: 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
The loss of engine power due to a restriction of fuel flow as a result of a fractured float bracket in the carburetor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA24LA016 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