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N9863T

Cessna 172A

Valid Wyoming

N9863T is a Cessna 172A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Greybull, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 30, 2013 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 20, 1960.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172A · all 172As and related versions
Serial number
47663
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1960
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
ADC441 (octal 53342101)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 30, 2013
Expires
August 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 25, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · July 20, 1960
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00623650

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Backlund Scott W
Type
Individual
Address
232 1St Ave N
Greybull, WY 82426-2002

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N9863T, 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 Backlund Scott W, an individual, certificate issued August 30, 2013, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated July 20, 1960, consistent with the 1960 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 47663 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N9863T according to the deregistered file. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N9863T: Accident on May 24, 1998 at Ten Sleep, WY: no injuries, destroyed. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

FTW98LA254Accident on May 24, 1998 at Ten Sleep, WY: no injuries, destroyed.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172A · operated under 091

The student pilot's failure to select a proper touchdown point. A factor was his lack of recent experience conducting solo flight operations.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 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