Cessna 172I
N894 is a Cessna 172I, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Blanton Aircraft CO INC, a corporation in Orlando, Florida. The FAA lists the registration as "first notice for registration renewal" (certificate issued April 2, 1997). It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; aerial advertising, dated December 17, 1973.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Atlantic Airlines, Inc., so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172I · all 172Is and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 172 Skyhawk family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 17257119
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-320 SERIES · 150 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AC542F (octal 53052057)
Registration
- Status
- First notice for registration renewalFAA registration status code 25 (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 2, 1997
- Expires
- February 28, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- MultipleFAA airworthiness class code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Standard; Restricted; Aerial advertisingFAA certificate purpose code 133 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 17, 1973
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00593134
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blanton Aircraft CO INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 620633
Orlando, FL 32862-0633
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
Connections how N894 links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,687 registered
- Cessna 72,682 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Atlantic Airlines, Inc. · charter operator
- Lycoming IO-320 series 1,708 aircraft with this engine series · 150 hp
- Blanton Aircraft CO INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Orlando, FL 578 aircraft registered in this town
- Kissimmee Gateway Airport · ISM
- Orlando Executive · ORL
- Orlando International · MCO
- Orlando Sanford International · SFB
- Florida 21,702 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 4,222 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 857 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-320 series 31 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-320 series 43 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Rib, corroded · 1996-11-11
- Report filed on this aircraft: Spar, corroded · 1996-11-11
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bracket, corroded · 1996-11-11
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N894.json.
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The public federal record on N894, 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.
Registration status is "First notice for registration renewal". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 17, 1973, 5 years after the 1968 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 17257119 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N894 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Standard J-1 (serial 118, cancelled July 31, 1938). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N894. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data