Cessna 172B
N7882X is a Cessna 172B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sierraville, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 17, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 18, 1961.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172B · all 172Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17248382
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AAB0F2 (octal 52530362)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 17, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 18, 1961
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00575020
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Defenbau James
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 185
Sierraville, CA 96126
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 N7882X, 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 Defenbau James, an individual, certificate issued April 17, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated March 18, 1961, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17248382 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7882X 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 N7882X: Accident on March 31, 1999 at Winslow, AZ: 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 172B · operated under 091
The pilot's decision to continue flight into known adverse wind conditions which exceeded the ground handling capability of the aircraft.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX99LA132 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