Cessna 172K
N79949 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 Sna Aviation INC, a non-citizen corporation in Charlotte, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 6, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. 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
- 17258276
- 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
- AADC7A (octal 52556172)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 6, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 15, 1969
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00505290
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sna Aviation INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporation
- Address
- 11811 Sir Francis Drake Dr
Charlotte, NC 28277-5807
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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 N79949, 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 Sna Aviation INC, a non-citizen corporation, certificate issued December 6, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. 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 17258276 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N79949 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N79949. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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