Cessna 172
N8246B is a Cessna 172, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1957. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bozeman, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 8, 2003 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 16, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172 · all 172s and related versions
- Serial number
- 36046
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1957
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AB42E3 (octal 52641343)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 8, 2003
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · July 16, 1957
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00823631
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Boyer Christopher
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 10281 Kelly Canyon Rd
Bozeman, MT 59715-9628
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 N8246B, 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 Boyer Christopher, an individual, certificate issued October 8, 2003, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated July 16, 1957, consistent with the 1957 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36046 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8246B 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 N8246B: Accident on May 8, 1994 at Santa Ana, CA: 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 172 · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the aircraft. A factor in the accident was the pilot's limited experience in conventional gear aircraft.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX94LA218 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