Cessna 172K
N85JW is a Cessna 172K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1968. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Blackwell, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 10, 2014 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 6, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172K · all 172Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 17257686
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- ABA5DC (octal 52722734)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 10, 2014
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 6, 1968
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00144970
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Whittington Robert W
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 3010 S Q St
Blackwell, OK 74631-6413 - Co-owners
- Whittington Jean E
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 N85JW, 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 Whittington Robert W, a co-owned, certificate issued April 10, 2014, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 6, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17257686 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N85JW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerofab Inc LAKE LA-250 (serial 66, cancelled April 2, 1996). 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 N85JW: Accident on October 30, 1994 at Westfield, MA: minor 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: Lake LA-250 · operated under 091
the pilot's improper in-flight planning and inaccurate fuel consumption calculations, resulting in fuel exhaustion and the subsequent forced landing at night.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC95LA019 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