Cessna 172F
N8768U is a Cessna 172F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Detroit, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated February 27, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172F · all 172Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17252672
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AC1023 (octal 53010043)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 22, 2014
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · February 27, 2003
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00652111
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wright Roland P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 21713
Detroit, MI 48221-0713
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 N8768U, 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 Wright Roland P, an individual, certificate issued July 22, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 27, 2003, 38 years after the 1965 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17252672 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8768U 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 N8768U: Accident on December 21, 2022 at Auburn Hills, MI: 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: Cessna 172F · operated under 091
The catastrophic engine failure due to lack of oil lubrication, which resulted from the pilot’s failure to follow the airplane and engine manufacturers’ guidance for cold weather operation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN23LA067 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