Cessna 172K
N78624 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 an individual in Rome, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2022 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 26, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172K · all 172Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 17257691
- 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
- AAA98B (octal 52524613)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 28, 2022
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 26, 1968
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00184980
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dewing Matthew S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 689 Lovet Hill Rd
Rome, PA 18837-7843
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 N78624, 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 Dewing Matthew S, an individual, certificate issued February 28, 2022, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 26, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17257691 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78624 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-11 (serial 11-1385, cancelled March 15, 1962). 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]
1 NTSB record under N78624: Accident on October 2, 1998 at Middlefield, OH: 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 172K · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate preflight inspection which resulted in fuel exhaustion.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for IAD99LA001 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