Cessna 172R
N9968F 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 Southeast Aircraft Leasing LLC, an LLC in Jacksonville, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 1, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 23, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172R · all 172Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17280208
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- ADEC63 (octal 53366143)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 1, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- October 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 23, 1997
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00686861
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southeast Aircraft Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 12220 Atlantic Blvd Ste 130
PO Box 130
Jacksonville, FL 32225
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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 N9968F, 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 Southeast Aircraft Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 1, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 23, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17280208 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9968F 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]
2 NTSB records under N9968F: Accident on August 25, 2022 at Kissimmee, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on November 30, 2003 at Lexington, KY: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper landing flare and subsequent improper recovery from a bounced landing, which resulted in the nose landing gear impacting the runway.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA22LA385 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna C172R · operated under 091
The ground controller's failure to advise the relieving controller information regarding an engine run-up, which subsequently resulted in the flight instructor's inadvertent encounter with jet blast during ground taxi.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for IAD04LA003 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