Cessna 172M
N9678Q 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 Northgate Aviation INC, a corporation in Chico, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 28, 2015 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 15, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17265762
- 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
- AD79A6 (octal 53274646)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 28, 2015
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 15, 1975
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00994130
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Northgate Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 109 Convair Ave
Chico, CA 95973-9016 - Co-owners
- Northgate Aviation Chico Jet Center
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 N9678Q, 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 Northgate Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 28, 2015, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 15, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17265762 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9678Q 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 N9678Q: Accident on November 19, 2017 at Chico, CA: minor 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
An in-flight collision with a bird.
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