Cessna 172R
N828BM is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Christiansen Aviation LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 29, 2022 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 22, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172R · all 172Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17280134
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- AB4EB8 (octal 52647270)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 29, 2022
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 22, 1997
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00136711
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Christiansen Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- Mailboxes Etc #1710
2207 Concord Pike
Wilmington, DE 19803
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 N828BM, 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 Christiansen Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 29, 2022, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 22, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17280134 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N828BM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Mccomb Bernard RV 4 (serial 418, cancelled February 6, 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]
2 NTSB records under N828BM: Accident on February 3, 2014 at Fort Pierce, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 31, 1989 at Eaton, OH: fatal, destroyed (2 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172R · operated under 091
The student pilot's improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA14CA121 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mccomb RV-4 · operated under 091
POOR IN-FLIGHT PLANNING/DECISION BY THE PILOT WHICH RESULTED IN SPATIAL DISORIENTATION AND AN INADVERTENT SPIRAL. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE DARK NIGHT AND INSTRUMENT LIGHTS NOT INSTALLED.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI90DEG01 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