Cessna 172K
N79118 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 Osceola Aerosport LLC, an LLC in Osceola, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 1, 2008 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 23, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172K · all 172Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 17257893
- 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
- AABE58 (octal 52537130)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 1, 2008
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · January 23, 1969
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00085120
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Osceola Aerosport LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 282
Osceola, WI 54020-0282
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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 N79118, 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 Osceola Aerosport LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 1, 2008, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 23, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17257893 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N79118 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 N79118: Accident on January 16, 2026 at Amery, WI: 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 172K · operated under 091
On January 16, 2026, about 1130 central standard time, a Cessna 172 airplane, N79118, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Amery, Wisconsin. The pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 maintenance test flight. The pilot reported that during a post-maintenance test flight, he heard and felt a bang followed by violent shaking of the airframe with partial loss of engine power. The airplane was circling over Amery Municipal Airport, Amery, Wisconsin, and subsequently the pilot chose to reenter the traffic patt…
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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