Cessna 172F
N8431U is a Cessna 172F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Cookeville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 5, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 11, 1964.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172F · all 172Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17252331
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AB8D8C (octal 52706614)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 5, 2021
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 11, 1964
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00293061
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nelson Burton
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 342 Cherry Ave
Cookeville, TN 38501-2525 - Co-owners
- Nelson Deborah
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 N8431U, 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 Nelson Burton, a co-owned, certificate issued June 5, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 11, 1964, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17252331 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8431U 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 N8431U: Accident on March 27, 2022 at Sparta, TN: 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
Maintenance personnel’s failure to properly affix left main landing gear components, which led to the failure of the left main landing gear during the accident flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA22LA171 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