Cessna 172S
N798SP is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Precision Design INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 2026 and expires on March 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 7, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S8722
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- AAD75B (octal 52553533)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 21, 2026
- Expires
- March 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 21, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 7, 2001
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00033604
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Precision Design INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1201 N Orange St Ste 600
Wilmington, DE 19801-1171
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 N798SP, 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 Precision Design INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 21, 2026, expires March 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 7, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8722 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N798SP 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 N798SP: Accident on February 6, 2025 at Waco, TX: 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 172S · operated under 091
The student pilot’s inadequate landing flare that led to a bounced landing, and her improper pitch control during the attempted recovery that resulted in a nose down pitch attitude upon the second touchdown.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA095 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