Cessna 172F
N7978U is a Cessna 172F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Northwoods Gateway Aviation LLC, an LLC in Antigo, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 25, 1964.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172F · all 172Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17251978
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AAD589 (octal 52552611)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 5, 2024
- Expires
- November 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- November 5, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 25, 1964
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00775300
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Northwoods Gateway Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- N3689 N Langlade Rd
Antigo, WI 54409-9210
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 N7978U, 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 Northwoods Gateway Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 5, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 25, 1964, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17251978 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7978U 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 N7978U: Accident on July 28, 2026 at Antigo, 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 172F · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN26LA273 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