Cessna R172E
N7887N 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 Kirtland Afb, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 31, 2014 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 21, 1967.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- R172E · all R172Es and related versions
- Serial number
- R172-0278
- 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
- AAB198 (octal 52530630)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 31, 2014
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 21, 1967
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00125040
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United States Air Force
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 3400 Clark Ave Hgr 333
Kirtland Afb, NM 87117-0001 - Co-owners
- Kirtland 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 N7887N, 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 January 31, 2014, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 21, 1967, consistent with the 1967 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial R172-0278 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7887N 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 N7887N. 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