Cessna 172M
N9970V is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1974. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Spalding Flying Club LLC, an LLC in Griffin, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 31, 2011 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 10, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17264588
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- ADEF10 (octal 53367420)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 31, 2011
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · January 10, 1975
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00263350
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Spalding Flying Club LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1116 Skyline Dr
Griffin, GA 30224-4962
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 N9970V, 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 Spalding Flying Club LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 31, 2011, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 10, 1975, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17264588 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9970V 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 N9970V: Accident on April 16, 2006 at Griffin, GA: 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 M · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to achieve the proper touchdown point, which resulted in an overrun of the runway, collision with an embankment, and subsequent nose over.
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