Cessna 172F
N8219U is a Cessna 172F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Trout Lake, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 2015 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172F · all 172Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17252119
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AB3838 (octal 52634070)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 30, 2015
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00316948
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shaffer Kenneth H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 335
Trout Lake, WA 98650-0335
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 N8219U, 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 Shaffer Kenneth H, an individual, certificate issued January 30, 2015, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17252119 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8219U 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 N8219U: Accident on September 26, 2025 at Battle Ground, WA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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 172F · operated under 091
On September 26, 2025, about 1306, Pacific daylight time a Cessna 172F, N8219U, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Battle Ground, Washington. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. Preliminary ADS-B data (see figure 1) indicated that after departure from Southwest Regional Airport, Kelso, Washington (KLS), the airplane flew southeast along the Columbia River to Goheen Airport, Battle Ground, Washington (W52) which is at a field elevation of 292 ft mean sea level (msl). ADS-B data showed tha…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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