Cessna 172R
N8292 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 Gulf Coast Helicopters INC, a corporation in Pearland, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 19, 1999 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 2, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172R · all 172Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17280048
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- AB54E8 (octal 52652350)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 19, 1999
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 2, 1997
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00866311
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gulf Coast Helicopters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 1167
Pearland, TX 77588-1167
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8292, 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 Gulf Coast Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 19, 1999, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 2, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17280048 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8292 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Alexander Aircraft Co EAGLEROCK A-13 (serial 847, cancelled December 5, 1929); Sikorsky S58E (serial 581097, cancelled date not given). 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 N8292: Accident on January 10, 2000 at Angleton, TX: 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 172R · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain control of the airplane during landing. A factor was the gust of wind.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW00LA060 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