Cessna 172H
N8027L 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 Frederick, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 23, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 8, 1967.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172H · all 172Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17256227
- 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
- AAECA3 (octal 52566243)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 23, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · June 8, 1967
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00710632
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Van Kirk Malcolm R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 87 Thomas Johnson Dr Ste 102
Frederick, MD 21702-4427
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 N8027L, 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 Van Kirk Malcolm R, an individual, certificate issued January 23, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated June 8, 1967, consistent with the 1967 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17256227 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8027L 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 N8027L: Accident on April 3, 1989 at Odenton, MD: minor 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 172H · operated under 091
THE INFLIGHT COLLISION WITH BIRDS.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO89LA026 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