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N7957X

Cessna 172B

Valid Wisconsin

N7957X is a Cessna 172B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hixton, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 26, 2019 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 22, 1961.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172B · all 172Bs and related versions
Serial number
17248457
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1961
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
AACDFB (octal 52546773)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 26, 2019
Expires
March 31, 2029
Last FAA action
January 15, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · March 22, 1961
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00725230

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Roderick Ashley T JR
Type
Individual
Address
N11116 County Road Ff
Hixton, WI 54635-8528

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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 N7957X, 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 Roderick Ashley T JR, an individual, certificate issued March 26, 2019, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated March 22, 1961, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17248457 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7957X 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 N7957X. 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