Cessna 172I
N8488L is a Cessna 172I, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Harrier Aviation LLC, an LLC in South Saint Paul, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 18, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 30, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172I · all 172Is and related versions
- Serial number
- 17256688
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- ABA10C (octal 52720414)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 18, 2020
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 30, 1968
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00632861
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Harrier Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1620 Henry Ave
South Saint Paul, MN 55075-3558
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 N8488L, 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 Harrier Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 18, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 30, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17256688 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8488L 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 N8488L: Accident on September 13, 2020 at Cottage Grove, MN: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). 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
A steep descent and impact with terrain for reasons that could not be determined based on the available information.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN20LA392 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