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N97947

Cessna 172P

Valid Alabama

N97947 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, a corporation in Maxwell Afb, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 12, 1986 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 12, 1984.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172P
Serial number
17276242
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-550-J3A5D · 250 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1984
Transponder code
ADA818 (octal 53324030)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 12, 1986
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · September 12, 1984
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00641784

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Civil Air Patrol
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

1968-04-22Stinson 108-1 · Valid registration

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