Cessna 172K
N79102 is a Cessna 172K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1969. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Van Wert County Regional Airport Aurthoirty, a government body in Van Wert, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 23, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 18, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172K · all 172Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 17257882
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AABE2F (octal 52537057)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 23, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 23, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · January 18, 1969
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00195120
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Van Wert County Regional Airport Aurthoirty
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 901 Elks Dr
Van Wert, OH 45891-8202
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N79102, 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 Van Wert County Regional Airport Aurthoirty, a government body, certificate issued January 23, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 18, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17257882 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N79102 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Consolidated Vultee BT-15 (serial 1150, cancelled March 17, 1953). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N79102. 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