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N7881N

Cessna R172E

N7881N 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 U S Air Force-Owner, a government body in Holloman Afb, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 14, 2004 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 2, 1967.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
R172E · all R172Es and related versions
Serial number
R172-0272
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
AAB0C6 (octal 52530306)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 14, 2004
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · December 2, 1967
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00255010

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
U S Air Force-Owner
Type
Government
Address
49 Force Support Sq Aero Club
PO Box 5009
Holloman Afb, NM 88330-5009
Co-owners
Holloman 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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N7881N, 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 U S Air Force-Owner, a government body, certificate issued June 14, 2004, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 2, 1967, consistent with the 1967 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial R172-0272 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7881N 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N7881N: Accident on June 28, 2023 at Alamogordo, NM: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

WPR23LA365Accident on June 28, 2023 at Alamogordo, NM: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna R172E · operated under 091

Failure of the pilot to maintain control of the airplane during the landing.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR23LA365 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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