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N80931

Cessna 172M

Valid Georgia

N80931 is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Augusta Aviation INC, a corporation in Augusta, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 15, 2012 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 10, 1976.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172M · all 172Ms and related versions
Serial number
17266806
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1976
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
AB0627 (octal 52603047)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 15, 2012
Expires
June 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 19, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · March 10, 1976
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00880402

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Augusta Aviation INC
Type
Corporation
Address
1775 Highland Ave
Augusta, GA 30904-5302

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1949-11-15Globe GC-1B · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N80931, 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 Augusta Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 15, 2012, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 10, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17266806 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N80931 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Globe GC-1B (serial 1124, cancelled November 15, 1949). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N80931: Accident on October 28, 2019 at Augusta, GA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

GAA20CA055Accident on October 28, 2019 at Augusta, GA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091

The student pilot's failure to attain sufficient airspeed to climb out of ground effect, which resulted in a descent, loss of directional control, runway excursion, and impact with a fence.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA20CA055 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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