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N8520B

Cessna 172

Valid Colorado

N8520B is a Cessna 172, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1957. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Rye, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 21, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 28, 1957.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172 · all 172s and related versions
Serial number
36220
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1957
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
ABB120 (octal 52730440)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 21, 2024
Expires
March 31, 2031
Last FAA action
March 21, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · October 28, 1957
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00462801

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cook Mike R
Type
Co-owned
Address
PO Box 115
Rye, CO 81069-0115
Co-owners
Cook Julie G

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 N8520B, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Cook Mike R, a co-owned, certificate issued March 21, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated October 28, 1957, consistent with the 1957 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36220 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8520B according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N8520B. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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