Cessna 172R
N988CP is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. 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 February 24, 1998 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 16, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172R · all 172Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17280254
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- ADC91C (octal 53344434)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 24, 1998
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 16, 1997
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00286711
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Civil Air Patrol INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 105 S Hansell St
Maxwell Afb, AL 36112
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N988CP, 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 February 24, 1998, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 16, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17280254 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N988CP 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 N988CP: Accident on June 23, 2024 at Hooper, 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 172R · operated under 091
The solo student pilot’s unstable approach to the runway, which resulted in a hard, bounced landing
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24LA349 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