Cessna 172RG
N948SM is a Cessna 172RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Scenic Concepts LLC, an LLC in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 1, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 12, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172RG · all 172RGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 172RG1057
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- AD2C7C (octal 53226174)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 1, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 12, 1982
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00540321
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scenic Concepts LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 115 5Th Ave S Fl 2Nd
La Crosse, WI 54601-9200
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 N948SM, 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 Scenic Concepts LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 1, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 12, 1982, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172RG1057 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N948SM 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 N948SM: Accident on September 15, 2004 at Montgomery, AL: 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 172RG · operated under 091
The separation of a hydraulic line for undetermined reasons, which resulted in a hydraulic fluid leak and malfunction of the landing gear.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL04CA186 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