Cessna 172C
N8404X is a Cessna 172C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Housel LLC DBA, an LLC in Palm Harbor, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 24, 1961.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172C · all 172Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17248904
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AB82D3 (octal 52701323)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 25, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · October 24, 1961
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00833131
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Housel LLC DBA
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2652 Wildwood Ln
Palm Harbor, FL 34684-1561 - Co-owners
- Cove Helicopter
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 N8404X, 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 Housel LLC DBA, an LLC, certificate issued September 25, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17248904 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8404X 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]
2 NTSB records under N8404X: Accident on August 30, 2015 at New Enterprise, PA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 30, 1986 at Bement, IL: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
The pilot's exceedance of the critical angle of attack during takeoff, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall and impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA15CA243 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172C · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI86LA217 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