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A Cessna R172 Hawk XP, the same model family as N7902N
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N7902N

Cessna R172E

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesColorado

N7902N is a Cessna R172E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 4 seats. It is registered to United States Air Force Owner, a government body in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 13, 1995 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 2, 1968.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
R172E · all R172Es and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna R172 Hawk XP family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
R172-0293
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-360 SER · 300 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1968
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
AABAB0 (octal 52535260)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
March 13, 1995
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 2, 1968
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00875150

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
United States Air Force Owner
Type
GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
325 Hamilton Ave Hangar 133
Colorado Springs, CO 80916
Co-owners
Peterson 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.

Connections how N7902N links to the rest of the register

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Engine
Owner
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Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N7902N, 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 United States Air Force Owner, a government body, certificate issued March 13, 1995, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 2, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial R172-0293 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7902N 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N7902N. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data