Cessna 172B
N8098X is a Cessna 172B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 5, 1961.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172B · all 172Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17248598
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AB06D2 (octal 52603322)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 21, 2022
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 5, 1961
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00500392
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Raphael Christopher M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5011 Fossil Butte Dr
Colorado Springs, CO 80923-5193
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 N8098X, 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 Raphael Christopher M, an individual, certificate issued March 21, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated June 5, 1961, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17248598 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8098X 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 N8098X: Accident on May 29, 2023 at Divide, CO: 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 172B · operated under 091
A loss of engine power during cruise flight for reasons that could not be determined.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN23LA206 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
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