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N99871

Cessna 172P

Valid Alabama

N99871 is a Cessna 172P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. 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 February 18, 1986 and expires on July 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172P
Serial number
17276520
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
ADF3C2 (octal 53371702)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 18, 1986
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00521646

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 2

1972-09-08Dehavilland Canada U-6A-DH · exported to Canada · Valid registration
1959-02-17Engineering & Research 415-C · exported to Canada · Valid registration

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