{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1992-02-26","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1991-06-24","city":"USAF ACADEMY","country_code":"US","county_code":"041","cruise_speed_mph":108,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17025","engine_horsepower":300,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"IO-360 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-03-04","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2072413","mode_s_code":"50134375","mode_s_hex":"A0B8FD","model":"R172E","n_number":"N146AC","name":"UNITED STATES AIR FORCE OWNER","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Colorado Springs","damage":"SUBS","date":"2018-08-16","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"CEN18LA335","probable_cause":"The airplane\u2019s failure to maintain a climb after takeoff, which resulted in a forced landing on unsuitable terrain; the reason for the airplane\u2019s failure to climb could not be determined based on the available evidence.","registration":"N146AC","state":"CO","summary":"Accident on August 16, 2018 at Colorado Springs, CO: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"COLORADO SPRING","damage":"SUBS","date":"1992-05-18","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"DEN92LA053","probable_cause":"THE PILOT DID NOT MAINTAIN CLEARANCE AND THE AIRPLANE COLLIDED WITH A FENCE POST.","registration":"N146AC","state":"CO","summary":"Accident on May 18, 1992 at Colorado Spring, CO: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY OPERATOR","plain_english":"N146AC is a Cessna R172E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 4 seats. It is registered to United States Air Force Owner, a government body in Usaf Academy, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 1991 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 26, 1992.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to United States Air Force Owner, a government body, certificate issued June 24, 1991, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 26, 1992, 25 years after the 1967 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial R1720147 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N146AC according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"2 NTSB records under N146AC: Accident on August 16, 2018 at Colorado Springs, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 18, 1992 at Colorado Spring, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":4,"serial_number":"R1720147","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"CO","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"9222 AIRFIELD DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00455471","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N146AC","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1967,"zip":"80840"}