Cessna 172R
N986AV is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Moore Aviation INC, a corporation in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2009 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 3, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172R · all 172Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17280580
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- ADC182 (octal 53340602)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 2009
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 3, 1998
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00303736
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Moore Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 7 Piper St Ste 2
Beaver Falls, PA 15010-1043
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 N986AV, 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 Moore Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 29, 2009, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 3, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17280580 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N986AV 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 N986AV: Accident on April 2, 2004 at Kalamazoo, MI: 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 172R · operated under 091
The air traffic control procedures/directives not followed by tower air traffic controller, the inadequate compensation for wind conditions by the student pilot during landing, the lack of total experience by the student pilot, and the recommended crosswind flap setting not followed by the student pilot. The crosswind conditions were a contributing factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI04LA097 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
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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