Cessna 172K
N78242 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 176Fps LLC, an LLC in Marthasville, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 13, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 9, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172K · all 172Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 17257543
- 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
- AA9AF3 (octal 52515363)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 13, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 13, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 9, 1968
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00354890
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- 176Fps LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 15570 Scenic Ridge Rd
Marthasville, MO 63357-2176
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 N78242, 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 176Fps LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 13, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 9, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17257543 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78242 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 N78242: Accident on August 14, 2016 at Fulton, MO: 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 172 · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper landing flare and subsequent improper recovery from a bounced landing, which resulted in the airplane porpoising.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16CA473 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