Cessna 172M
N9012H is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1975. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Leading Edge Flight Academy LLC, an LLC in Bend, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 8, 2021 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 9, 1975.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 9:00 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms 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
- 17265899
- 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
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- AC7589 (octal 53072611)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 8, 2021
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 9, 1975
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00311401
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Leading Edge Flight Academy LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 63048 Powell Butte Hwy
Bend, OR 97701-9739
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 N9012H links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,683 registered
- Cessna 72,685 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-320 series 27,303 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Leading Edge Flight Academy LLC 23 aircraft in the fleet
- Bend, OR 399 aircraft registered in this town
- Bend Municipal · BDN
- Oregon 7,008 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 4,220 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 857 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Pushrod, damaged · 2023-11-09
- Report filed on this aircraft: Rocker, damaged · 2023-09-14
- Where N9012H is now · Last seen yesterday at 9:00 pm.
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The public federal record on N9012H, 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 Leading Edge Flight Academy LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 8, 2021, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 9, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17265899 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9012H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing A75N1 (serial 75-3710, cancelled July 30, 1951). 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 N9012H. 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 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 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 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data