Cessna 172C
N8400X is a Cessna 172C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Catlett, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 5, 2015 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 24, 1961.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172C · all 172Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17248900
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AB8247 (octal 52701107)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 5, 2015
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · October 24, 1961
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00873161
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Burlingame Craig D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7847 Overbrook Dr
Catlett, VA 20119-1760
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 N8400X, 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 Burlingame Craig D, an individual, certificate issued October 5, 2015, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated October 24, 1961, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17248900 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8400X 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 N8400X: Accident on August 15, 2024 at Elkwood, VA: 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 correctly reinstall the airplane’s left seat, resulting in the movement of the seat during the takeoff roll, and the subsequent loss of control and runway excursion.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA24LA357 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data