Cessna 172N
N8173E is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sky Equity LLC, an LLC in Woodbury, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 30, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 30, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17272147
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AB2623 (octal 52623043)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 30, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 30, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · January 30, 1979
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00790072
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sky Equity LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4555 Silverado Dr
Woodbury, MN 55129-7540
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8173E, 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 Sky Equity LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 30, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 30, 1979, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17272147 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8173E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mooney M20A (serial 1444, cancelled September 25, 1961). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N8173E: Accident on November 30, 2000 at Marana, 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 172N · operated under 091
The student pilot's improper flare and improper recovery from a bounced landing. A factor in the accident was the morning sun, which momentarily restricted the pilot's vision.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX01LA048 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