Cessna 172L
N7872G is a Cessna 172L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 4 seats. It is registered to American Classic Flying Club LLC, an LLC in Waterville, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 26, 2022 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 11, 1970.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172L · all 172Ls and related versions
- Serial number
- 17259572
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1970
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AAAD2C (octal 52526454)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 26, 2022
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- November 1, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 11, 1970
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00995480
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Classic Flying Club LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- Waterville Airport
2 Lafluer Rd
Waterville, ME 04901-4532
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 N7872G, 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 American Classic Flying Club LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 26, 2022, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 11, 1970, consistent with the 1970 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17259572 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7872G 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 N7872G: Accident on March 14, 2004 at Turner, ME: 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 172L · operated under 091
The pilot's misjudgment of speed/distance and the delayed aborted landing. A factor in this accident was the tail wind condition.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC04LA087 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