Cessna 172C
N8401X 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 co-owned owners in Sandpoint, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 4, 1998 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 26, 1961.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172C · all 172Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17248901
- 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
- AB826A (octal 52701152)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 4, 1998
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · December 26, 1961
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00843111
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wilkinson Bert D
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 8250 Sunnyside Rd
Sandpoint, ID 83864-6405 - Co-owners
- Wilkinson Sandy K
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N8401X, 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 Wilkinson Bert D, a co-owned, certificate issued September 4, 1998, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated December 26, 1961, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17248901 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8401X 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8401X. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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