Cessna 172Q
N96227 is a Cessna 172Q, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1983. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Civil Air Patrol INC, a corporation in Montgomery, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 1995 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 2, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172Q · all 172Qs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17276045
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- AD6652 (octal 53263122)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 14, 1995
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 2, 1983
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00343382
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Civil Air Patrol INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 105 S Hansell St Bldg 714
Montgomery, AL 36112-5937
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N96227, 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 Civil Air Patrol INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 14, 1995, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 2, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17276045 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N96227 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft BC12-D (serial 8527, cancelled June 7, 1966). 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 N96227. 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 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