Cessna 172P
N98981 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 Airplane And Drone Flight Instruction LLC, an LLC in Orlando, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 19, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 17, 1985.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17276390
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1985
- Transponder code
- ADD01D (octal 53350035)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 19, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 19, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 17, 1985
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00131675
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Airplane And Drone Flight Instruction LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 14740 Cableshire Way
Orlando, FL 32824-4202
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 N98981, 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 Airplane And Drone Flight Instruction LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 19, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 17, 1985, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17276390 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N98981 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-12 (serial 12-338, cancelled November 20, 1972). 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 N98981: Accident on June 13, 2004 at Meridianville, AL: 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 failure to maintain directional control during an attempted takeoff, which resulted in the on ground collision with the ground.
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 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