Cessna 172P
N98774 is a Cessna 172P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1985. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Simplifly LLC, an LLC in Mesa, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 7, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 14, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17276349
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- ADC88F (octal 53344217)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 7, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- March 9, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 14, 1985
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00621155
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Simplifly LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3139 S Benton Cir
Mesa, AZ 85212-1861
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 N98774, 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 Simplifly LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 7, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 14, 1985, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17276349 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N98774 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 19011, 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 N98774: Accident on November 29, 2008 at Sedona, AZ: 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 172 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper flare and inadequate recovery from a bounced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR09CA053 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