Cessna 172K
N79948 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 Seawings LLC, an LLC in Holualoa, Hawaii. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 14, 2012 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 15, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172K · all 172Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 17258275
- 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
- AADC79 (octal 52556171)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 14, 2012
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 15, 1969
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00515290
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Seawings LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 551
Holualoa, HI 96725-0551
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 N79948, 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 Seawings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 14, 2012, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 15, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17258275 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N79948 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 N79948: Accident on December 26, 1991 at Kamuela, HI: 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 172K · operated under 091
THE PILOTS ENCOUNTER WITH A WIND GUST BEYOND THE GROUND HANDLING CAPABILITY OF THE AIRCRAFT AND HIS FAILURE TO OBTAIN PREFLIGHT WEATHER INFORMATION.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX92LA072 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