Cessna 172K
N78938 is a Cessna 172K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1968. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Wings Over Texas Holdings LLC, an LLC in Denton, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 4, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 12, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172K · all 172Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 17257794
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AAB4D7 (octal 52532327)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 4, 2023
- Expires
- October 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 12, 1968
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00875050
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wings Over Texas Holdings LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4849 Spartan Dr
Denton, TX 76207-4548
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N78938, 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 Wings Over Texas Holdings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 4, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 12, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17257794 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N78938 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 N78938: Accident on September 20, 2025 at Salisbury, CT: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172K · operated under 091
On September 20, 2025, about 1733 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 172K, N78938, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Salisbury, Connecticut. The flight instructor and pilot receiving instruction sustained minor injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. The flight instructor reported that after departing they climbed to 7,000 ft mean sea level (msl) and had been in cruise flight for about 10 minutes when the engine rpm dropped about 100 rpm. The flight instructor turned on the carburetor heat and t…
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- 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