Cessna 172K
N84688 is a Cessna 172K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1969. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Quad Cities Aero LLC, an LLC in Bettendorf, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 6, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 8, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172K · all 172Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 17258578
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AB99B4 (octal 52714664)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 6, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 6, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 8, 1969
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00292931
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Quad Cities Aero LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 6535 Blackbird Ln
Bettendorf, IA 52722-2454
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N84688, 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 Quad Cities Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 6, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 8, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17258578 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N84688 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-3399, cancelled October 12, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N84688: Accident on February 19, 2023 at Moline, 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172K · operated under 091
The student pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll in gusting crosswind conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN23LA111 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