Cessna 172M
N81772 is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to American Patrols INC, a corporation in Midland, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 16, 2022 and expires on July 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17263860
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- AB26C5 (octal 52623305)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 16, 2022
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00381242
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Patrols INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 10306 S County Road 1210
Midland, TX 79706-7820
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 2
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N81772, 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 American Patrols INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 16, 2022, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17263860 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N81772 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech A36 (serial E2843, cancelled May 12, 1994); Brandon David Wayne SIDEWINDER (serial 212698, cancelled September 17, 1990). 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 N81772: Accident on April 17, 2010 at Coldwater, KS: 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 172M · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to compensate for gusting crosswinds resultuing in the loss of directional control while landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN10CA212 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