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N1KU

Cessna 172M

Valid Kansas

N1KU 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 University Of Kansas Aerospace Engineering Dept, a government body in Lawrence, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 18, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated April 30, 2025.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172M
Serial number
17262270
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-E2D · 150 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1974
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
A000F6 (octal 50000366)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 18, 2019
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Research and development · April 30, 2025
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00900670

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
University Of Kansas Aerospace Engineering Dept
Type
Government
Address
1530 W 15Th St 2120 Learned Hall
Lawrence, KS 66045-0001

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

2010-07-22Piper PA-28R-200 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data