Cessna 172P
N97163 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 Civil Air Patrol INC, a corporation in Maxwell Afb, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 20, 1992 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 3, 1984.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17276161
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- AD8AA2 (octal 53305242)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 20, 1992
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- June 13, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 3, 1984
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00722063
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Civil Air Patrol INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 105 S Hansell St
Maxwell Afb, AL 36112-6332
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 N97163, 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 July 20, 1992, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 3, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17276161 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N97163 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson 108 (serial 108163, cancelled January 5, 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 N97163: Accident on June 8, 1984 at Fremont, NE: 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC84LA167 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