Cessna 172R
N870CP is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Avolant Aviation LLC, an LLC in Mooresville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 25, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 15, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172R · all 172Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17280666
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- ABF696 (octal 52773226)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 25, 2021
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 15, 1999
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00937271
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Avolant Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 424 Oak Tree Rd
Mooresville, NC 28117-5920
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 N870CP, 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 Avolant Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 25, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 15, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17280666 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N870CP 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 N870CP: Accident on March 22, 2026 at Maiden, NC: 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 172R · operated under 091
The flight instructor’s inadequate preflight planning, which resulted in a rejected takeoff from a tailwind departure and subsequent runway excursion.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA26LA227 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