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Cessna 172L: fleet, age & accident history
Aggregate figures from the FAA Aircraft Registry (current US civil registrations) and the NTSB Aviation Accident Database. No individual owners are named on this page.
Accident-rate context
NTSB-recorded events (loaded window) involving aircraft currently registered as this model, per 1,000 currently registered. Not a safety ranking; older events and deregistered aircraft are not counted.
Where Cessna 172L aircraft are registered
Count of currently registered Cessna 172L aircraft by registration state (FAA). Aggregate counts only.
| State | Registered |
|---|---|
| Texas | 86 |
| California | 68 |
| Florida | 63 |
| North Carolina | 40 |
| Washington | 38 |
| Ohio | 28 |
Cessna 172L airframes with a public accident record
These Cessna 172L aircraft are currently registered and carry at least one NTSB accident or incident record. Marked entries have a record filed under a different tail number — found by manufacturer serial number, which a search on the current N-number alone cannot surface.
- N7886G 1970 · 3 records prior tail number
- N1967S 1972 · 1 record prior tail number
- N2834Q 1971 · 1 record prior tail number
- N364CK · 1 record prior tail number
- N3804Q 1971 · 1 record prior tail number
- N3982Q 1971 · 1 record prior tail number
- N9849G 1971 · 1 record prior tail number
- N1079M 1971 · 2 records
- N3875Q 1971 · 2 records
- N4383Q 1971 · 2 records
- N7805G 1970 · 2 records
- N172DG 1972 · 1 record
- N243W 1971 · 1 record
- N2860Q 1971 · 1 record
- N4211Q 1971 · 1 record
- N4376Q · 1 record
- N1026M 1970 · 1 record
- N172GT 1971 · 1 record
Other Cessna models
- 172M · 3,581 registered
- 172N · 3,139 registered
- 182P · 2,100 registered
- 172S · 1,915 registered
- 172 · 1,805 registered
- 152 · 1,635 registered
- 140 · 1,599 registered
- 182Q · 1,564 registered
Was this Cessna 172L ever wrecked under a different tail number?
The free registries search by current tail number — so a Cessna 172L that was wrecked, rebuilt, and re-registered under a new N-number shows clean on every one of them. The accident stays filed under the tail the airframe wore at the time. The $79 report cross-matches by manufacturer serial number to surface that hidden history — plus every registrant on record, registration expiry, recent FAA filings (the lien signal), and the full NTSB narrative for each event. Delivered instantly, no account, no ads.
source: FAA Aircraft Registry source: NTSB FAA data as of 2026-08-17 computed 2026-08-24