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N8026L

Cessna 172H

Valid Louisiana

N8026L is a Cessna 172H, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Vidalia, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 11, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 31, 1967.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172H · all 172Hs and related versions
Serial number
17256226
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1967
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
AAEC80 (octal 52566200)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 11, 2026
Expires
April 30, 2033
Last FAA action
April 11, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · May 31, 1967
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00120652

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sayers Carl D
Type
Individual
Address
237 Audubon Acres Cir
Vidalia, LA 71373-3044

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N8026L, 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 Sayers Carl D, an individual, certificate issued April 11, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 31, 1967, consistent with the 1967 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17256226 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8026L 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 N8026L. 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