Cessna 172
N7939B is a Cessna 172, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fairbanks, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 9, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 29, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172 · all 172s and related versions
- Serial number
- 29739
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AAC6BF (octal 52543277)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 9, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 9, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · December 29, 1956
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00715200
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Christmas Gabriel K
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12005 Richardson Hwy
Fairbanks, AK 99701-9212
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 N7939B, 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 Christmas Gabriel K, an individual, certificate issued January 9, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated December 29, 1956, consistent with the 1956 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 29739 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7939B 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 N7939B: Accident on September 24, 2006 at Palmer, AK: 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 172 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to follow the checklist to ensure the proper positioning of the magneto switch during the takeoff roll, which resulted in a partial loss of engine power, and a subsequent collision with high vegetation during the takeoff run. A factor contributing to the accident was the pilot's improper positioning of the magneto switch on the left magneto position.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC06CA138 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
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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