Cessna R172E
N7873N 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 November 24, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 3, 1967.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- R172E · all R172Es and related versions
- Serial number
- R172-0264
- 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
- AAAD55 (octal 52526525)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 24, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 3, 1967
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00685000
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United States Air Force
- Type
- Government
- Address
- Peterson Sfb CO
325 W Hamilton Ave Hngr 133
Colorado Springs, CO 80914-2309 - Co-owners
- Peterson Sfb Aero Club Operator
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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 N7873N, 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 United States Air Force, a government body, certificate issued November 24, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 3, 1967, consistent with the 1967 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial R172-0264 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7873N 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N7873N. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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