Cessna 172P
N781FM is a Cessna 172P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Fmfa INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 24, 2018 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 1, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17274448
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- AA94C6 (octal 52512306)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 24, 2018
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- October 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 1, 1980
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00342375
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fmfa INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 108 W 13Th St Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19801-1145
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 N781FM, 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 Fmfa INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 24, 2018, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 1, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17274448 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N781FM 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 N781FM: Accident on February 22, 2025 at Mayo, MD: minor 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 172 · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power at low altitude due to an accumulation of carburetor ice while in a cruise-power descent, which resulted in a forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA25LA127 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data