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N98120

Cessna 172P

Valid Alaska

N98120 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 Blue River Aviation LLC, an LLC in Palmer, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 18, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 22, 1984.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172P · all 172Ps and related versions
Serial number
17276260
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1984
Transponder code
ADB192 (octal 53330622)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 18, 2022
Expires
March 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · October 22, 1984
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
00992604

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Blue River Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
PO Box 248
Palmer, AK 99645-0248

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 2

1970-07-10Piper PA-28-140 · Valid registration
1950-03-17Piper J3C-65 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N98120, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Blue River Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 18, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 22, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17276260 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N98120 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 28-26054, cancelled July 10, 1970); Piper J3C-65 (serial 18277, cancelled March 17, 1950). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N98120. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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