Cessna 172N
N79514 is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Galaxy Aviation LLC, an LLC in Nantucket, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 25, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 23, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17268134
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AACD30 (octal 52546460)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 25, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 25, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 23, 1976
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00625260
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Galaxy Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 48 Surfside Rd
Nantucket, MA 02554-2864
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 N79514, 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 Galaxy Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 25, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 23, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17268134 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N79514 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 N79514: Accident on April 1, 2025 at Hickory, NC: minor 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 172N · operated under 091
The student pilot’s failure to maintain airplane control during an attempted go-around, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall/spin and collision with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA25LA164 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