Cessna 172P
N9566L is a Cessna 172P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1986. It has 4 seats. It is registered to North Sound Aviation, a corporation in Sedro Woolley, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 1, 2012 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 3, 1986.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17276578
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1986
- Transponder code
- AD4E26 (octal 53247046)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 1, 2012
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 3, 1986
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00832756
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- North Sound Aviation
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 30578 Walberg Rd
Sedro Woolley, WA 98284-8659
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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 N9566L, 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 North Sound Aviation, a corporation, certificate issued February 1, 2012, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 3, 1986, consistent with the 1986 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17276578 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9566L 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]
2 NTSB records under N9566L: Accident on June 15, 2003 at Seattle, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on December 24, 1997 at Kenmore, WA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172P · operated under 091
The dual student's failure to maintain aircraft control and the flight instructor's delayed remedial action. Contributing factors were the crosswind condition and the flight instructor's lack of experience.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172P · operated under 091
the pilot's inadequately planned approach and failure to maintain directional control. The pilot's lack of total experience in kind of aircraft and haze were factors.
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 September 30, 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