Cessna 172F
N8873U 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 Greeneville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 4, 1985 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 31, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172F · all 172Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17252789
- 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
- AC3AAA (octal 53035252)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 4, 1985
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 31, 1965
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00381821
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Olafsen George F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 480 Browns Cir
Greeneville, TN 37743-3671
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 N8873U, 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 Olafsen George F, an individual, certificate issued December 4, 1985, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 31, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17252789 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8873U 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8873U. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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 September 30, 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