Cessna 172K
N78239 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 Draco Flight School DBA, a corporation in Chino, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 11, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 30, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172K · all 172Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 17257540
- 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
- AA9AD7 (octal 52515327)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 11, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 30, 1968
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00714910
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Draco Flight School DBA
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 7000 Merrill Ave
Chino, CA 91710-9091 - Co-owners
- Chino Aviation Flight Training
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N78239, 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 Draco Flight School DBA, a corporation, certificate issued August 11, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 30, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17257540 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78239 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Globe GC-1B (serial 2239, cancelled March 8, 1949). 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]
2 NTSB records under N78239: Accident on October 5, 2018 at Stockton, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 15, 1991 at Greeneville, TN: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control during takeoff.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA19CA014 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172K · operated under 091
THE INADEQUATE VISUAL LOOKOUT BY THE PILOT OF N78239, AND HIS FAILURE TO ACCURATELY JUDGE THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE TWO AIRCRAFT. FACTORS IN THE ACCIDENT WERE THE DARK NIGHT CONDITIONS AND THE RESULTING VISUAL PERCEPTION OF AIRCRAFT LIGHTING IN DARK CONDITIONS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL91LA175 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