Cessna 172F
N7894U is a Cessna 172F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Carson City, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 1999 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172F · all 172Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17251894
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AAB4EC (octal 52532354)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 22, 1999
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00303348
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Petty Robert J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1425 Dunbar Dr
Carson City, NV 89704-9172
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 N7894U, 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 Petty Robert J, an individual, certificate issued September 22, 1999, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17251894 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7894U 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 N7894U: Accident on March 31, 1998 at Fort Collins, CO: 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 172F · operated under 091
the pilot's improper in flight planning/decision in electing to land with a known 30 knot tailwind. Factors were high winds and a tailwind.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW98LA166 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
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