Cessna 172P
N96879 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 Gc Aviation Services-1 LLC, an LLC in Miamisburg, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 9, 2019 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 16, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17276127
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- AD7D4D (octal 53276515)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 9, 2019
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 16, 1983
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00071583
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gc Aviation Services-1 LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 10600 Springboro Pike
Miamisburg, OH 45342-4940
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 N96879, 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 Gc Aviation Services-1 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 9, 2019, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 16, 1983, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17276127 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N96879 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft BC12-D (serial 9179, cancelled January 4, 1971). 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 N96879: Accident on February 15, 1996 at Salmon, ID: 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 172P · operated under 091
failure of the pilot to maintain directional control during the landing, which resulted in a ground swerve. A factor relating to the accident was: the rock pile to the left of the runway.
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
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