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Cessna R172E
N96218 is a Cessna R172E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Castalia, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 13, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 11, 1976.
Where is it now Last seen Sunday at 4:57 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- R172E · all R172Es 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 R172 Hawk XP 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
- R172-0214
- 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 · Cont Motor IO-360 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- AD6630 (octal 53263060)
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 13, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 13, 2025
- 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 · February 11, 1976
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00414300
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Link Jessica Elizabeth
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3913 Bardshar Rd
Castalia, OH 44824-9728 - Co-owners
- Link Michael William
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.
Connections how N96218 links to the rest of the register
- Cessna R172 Hawk XP 758 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-360 series 1,854 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Castalia, OH 2 aircraft registered in this town
- Ohio 8,529 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna R172 Hawk XP 32 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna R172 Hawk XP 91 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna R172 Hawk XP 341 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-360 series 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-360 series 41 reports since 1995
- Where N96218 is now · Last seen Sunday at 4:57 pm.
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The public federal record on N96218, 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 Link Jessica Elizabeth, a co-owned, certificate issued September 13, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 11, 1976, 9 years after the 1967 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 R172-0214 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N96218 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 N96218: Accident on October 19, 1997 at North Las Vegas, NV: 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 R172E · operated under 091
The pilot of the Stinson AT-19, N88793, inadequate visual lookout and his failure to perform clearing S-turns while taxiing. A related factor was the inherent forward visual restriction of the aircraft's conventional landing gear design.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data