Cessna 172
N8316B 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 Wasilla, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 26, 2011 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172 · all 172s and related versions
- Serial number
- 36116
- 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
- AB5F3D (octal 52657475)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 26, 2011
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00713381
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hudspeth Steve A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3235 N Nichols Dr
Wasilla, AK 99623-0882
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 N8316B, 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 Hudspeth Steve A, an individual, certificate issued September 26, 2011, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36116 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8316B 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 N8316B: Accident on October 29, 1985 at North Bend, OR: serious injuries. 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA86LA017 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