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N96579

Cessna 172P

Valid Alabama

N96579 is a Cessna 172P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Civil Air Patrol INC, a corporation in Maxwell Afb, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 4, 1988 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 28, 1983.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172P
Serial number
17276090
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1984
Transponder code
AD7228 (octal 53271050)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 4, 1988
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · October 28, 1983
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00280883

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Civil Air Patrol INC
Type
Corporation
Address
105 S Hansell St
Maxwell Afb, AL 36112-6332

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

1971-09-14Taylorcraft BC12-D · Valid registration

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