Cessna 172P
N96621 is a Cessna 172P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 4 seats. It is registered to D Gordon Aviation INC, a corporation in La Jolla, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 29, 2019 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 3, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17276096
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- AD7528 (octal 53272450)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 29, 2019
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 3, 1983
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00520833
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- D Gordon Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 1726
La Jolla, CA 92038-1726
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N96621, 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 D Gordon Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 29, 2019, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 3, 1983, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17276096 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N96621 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft BC12-D (serial 8921, cancelled September 14, 1970). 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]
1 NTSB record under N96621: Accident on February 6, 2001 at Platter, OK: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). 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 172P · operated under 091
the failure of both pilots to maintain a visual lookout, which resulted in a mid-air collision over a lake. A contributing factor to the accident was the sun glare from the setting sun.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW01FA058 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