Cessna 170B
N8172A is a Cessna 170B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1952. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Salome, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 17, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 14, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 170B · all 170Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 25024
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C145 SERIES · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1952
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AB25FC (octal 52622774)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 17, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 14, 1956
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00310162
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wood Thomas A
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 969
Salome, AZ 85348-0969 - Co-owners
- Wood Illene H
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 N8172A, 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 Wood Thomas A, a co-owned, certificate issued March 17, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 14, 1956, 4 years after the 1952 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 25024 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8172A 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 N8172A: Accident on November 12, 1991 at Lake Havasu, AZ: no 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 170B · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S; 1) INADEQUATE PREFLIGHT PREPARATION, 2) FAILURE TO OBTAIN CURRENT NOTAM INFORMATION, AND 3) FAILURE TO OBTAIN A CURRENT ALTIMETER SETTING. FACTORS IN THE ACCIDENT WERE THE DARK NIGHT CONDITION AND THE PILOT ELECTION NOT TO USE THE LANDING LIGHT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX92LA044 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