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N79472

Cessna 172K

Valid Texas

N79472 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 co-owned owners in Waco, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 27, 1994 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 20, 1969.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172K · all 172Ks and related versions
Serial number
17258115
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
AACA49 (octal 52545111)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 27, 1994
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · October 20, 1969
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00415200

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Frey Michael L III
Type
Co-owned
Address
3513 N Rock Crk LP RR 3 Pob 325E
Waco, TX 76708
Co-owners
Frey Cynthia F

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N79472, 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 Frey Michael L III, a co-owned, certificate issued July 27, 1994, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 20, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17258115 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N79472 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 N79472. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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