Cessna 172M
N9659Q 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 an individual in Garden City, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 19, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 9, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17265743
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- AD725B (octal 53271133)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 19, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 9, 1975
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00744220
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Macrafic Bruce A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 52280 173Rd St
Garden City, MN 56034-4482
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 N9659Q, 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 Macrafic Bruce A, an individual, certificate issued July 19, 2021, expires July 31, 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 17265743 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9659Q 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 N9659Q: Accident on September 28, 2010 at Belle Plaine, MN: 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 172M · operated under 091
The pilot's loss of directional control due to an encounter with soft terrain while landing.
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