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N7866N

Cessna R172E

Valid Colorado

N7866N is a Cessna R172E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 4 seats. It is registered to United States Air Force, a government body in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 25, 1967 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 28, 1967.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
R172E · all R172Es and related versions
Serial number
R172-0257
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-360 SER · 300 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1967
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
AAAA07 (octal 52525007)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 25, 1967
Expires
September 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · December 28, 1967
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00855030

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
United States Air Force
Type
Government
Address
325 W Hamilton Ave # 133
Colorado Springs, CO 80914-2309
Co-owners
Peterson Afb Aero Club

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N7866N, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to United States Air Force, a government body, certificate issued October 25, 1967, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 28, 1967, consistent with the 1967 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial R172-0257 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7866N according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N7866N. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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