Cessna 172
N8984B is a Cessna 172, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Joshua Tree, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 10, 2011 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated February 24, 1958.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172 · all 172s and related versions
- Serial number
- 36684
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1958
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AC65F2 (octal 53062762)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 10, 2011
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · February 24, 1958
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00371531
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Whelchel Neil E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 2082
Joshua Tree, CA 92252-0862
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 N8984B, 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 Whelchel Neil E, an individual, certificate issued November 10, 2011, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated February 24, 1958, consistent with the 1958 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36684 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8984B 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 N8984B: Accident on January 6, 2001 at Pine Bluff, AR: 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 172 · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the forced landing on a gravel road. Contributing factors were the pilot's delay in using carburetor heat and the loose gravel.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data