Cessna 172P
N98923 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 Costa Flying Service INC, a corporation in Painted Post, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 15, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 22, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17276381
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- ADCF4D (octal 53347515)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 15, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 22, 1985
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00851735
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Costa Flying Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 342 Victory Hwy
Painted Post, NY 14870-9126
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 N98923, 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 Costa Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 15, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 22, 1985, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17276381 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N98923 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]
3 NTSB records under N98923: Accident on August 24, 2013 at Mitchellville, MD: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on January 6, 1990 at Newark, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 25, 1989 at Ottawa, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172P · operated under 091
The pilot’s decision to depart with a known deficiency following a hard landing. Contributing to the accident was an anomaly of the airplane’s nosewheel steering that could not be replicated during post-accident examination.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
IMPROPER PLANNING/DECISION BY THE PILOT. THE WET CONDITION OF THE GRASS RUNWAY WAS A RELATED FACTOR.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172D · operated under 091
STUDENT PILOT'S CONTINUING AN APPROACH TO LANDING BEYOND THE POINT WHERE SHE COULD BRING THE AIRCRAFT TO A CONTROLLED STOP ON THE REMAINING RUNWAY SURFACE.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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