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N8239L

Cessna 172H

Valid Texas

N8239L is a Cessna 172H, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Skys Edge Aviation LLC, an LLC in Midland, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 13, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 26, 1967.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172H · all 172Hs and related versions
Serial number
17256439
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1967
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
AB3F9E (octal 52637636)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 13, 2025
Expires
June 30, 2032
Last FAA action
June 13, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · July 26, 1967
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00563701

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Skys Edge Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
11519 W County Road 33
Midland, TX 79707-8929

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N8239L, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Skys Edge Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 13, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 26, 1967, consistent with the 1967 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17256439 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8239L according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N8239L. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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