Cessna 172K
N78086 is a Cessna 172K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1968. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 7, 1982 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 19, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172K · all 172Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 17257475
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AA9415 (octal 52512025)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 7, 1982
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 19, 1968
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00924910
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Drake Ronald N
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 7463 Cactus Flats Dr
Helena, MT 59602-8405 - Co-owners
- Drake Vivian M
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N78086, 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 Drake Ronald N, a co-owned, certificate issued October 7, 1982, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 19, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17257475 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78086 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Globe GC-1B (serial 2086, cancelled June 2, 1953). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N78086. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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