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Cessna 172N: 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 172N aircraft are registered
Count of currently registered Cessna 172N aircraft by registration state (FAA). Aggregate counts only.
| State | Registered |
|---|---|
| California | 367 |
| Florida | 339 |
| Texas | 248 |
| Washington | 116 |
| North Carolina | 88 |
| New York | 85 |
Cessna 172N airframes with a public accident record
These Cessna 172N 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.
- N258MA · 3 records prior tail number
- N6332D 1979 · 3 records prior tail number
- N1978N 1977 · 2 records prior tail number
- N118PC 1976 · 2 records prior tail number
- N1947F 1979 · 2 records prior tail number
- N28HA 1978 · 2 records prior tail number
- N422B · 2 records prior tail number
- N5241D 1979 · 2 records prior tail number
- N6616D 1979 · 2 records prior tail number
- N906KS 1979 · 2 records prior tail number
- N129SY 1978 · 1 record prior tail number
- N1328E 1978 · 1 record prior tail number
- N142TH · 1 record prior tail number
- N160FS 1979 · 1 record prior tail number
- N172B 1977 · 1 record prior tail number
- N172GS · 1 record prior tail number
- N172KJ · 1 record prior tail number
- N172PK 1979 · 1 record prior tail number
- N172UC 1978 · 1 record prior tail number
- N2101E 1978 · 1 record prior tail number
- N215FR 1978 · 1 record prior tail number
- N252RA 1977 · 1 record prior tail number
- N2807E 1978 · 1 record prior tail number
- N292KF · 1 record prior tail number
- N341FA · 1 record prior tail number
- N41FA 1979 · 1 record prior tail number
- N444FL · 1 record prior tail number
- N4813G 1979 · 1 record prior tail number
- N5303E 1978 · 1 record prior tail number
- N53600 · 1 record prior tail number
- N5378D 1979 · 1 record prior tail number
- N636CX 1978 · 1 record prior tail number
- N63JD 1979 · 1 record prior tail number
- N6475D 1979 · 1 record prior tail number
- N654AL 1977 · 1 record prior tail number
- N7073K · 1 record prior tail number
- N717RF 1977 · 1 record prior tail number
- N725BB 1976 · 1 record prior tail number
- N733CE · 1 record prior tail number
- N733RG · 1 record prior tail number
- N734YM 1977 · 1 record prior tail number
- N739ZH 1978 · 1 record prior tail number
- N746TW 1977 · 1 record prior tail number
- N756AW 1976 · 1 record prior tail number
- N75942 1976 · 1 record prior tail number
- N872FC 1980 · 1 record prior tail number
- N902FA 1980 · 1 record prior tail number
- N905WA 1977 · 1 record prior tail number
- N916AV · 1 record prior tail number
- N934GR 1977 · 1 record prior tail number
- N9399E 1979 · 1 record prior tail number
- N940FS 1979 · 1 record prior tail number
- N9414H 1979 · 1 record prior tail number
- N950DR · 1 record prior tail number
- N981MA 1978 · 1 record prior tail number
- N99048 1976 · 1 record prior tail number
- N997SE 1978 · 1 record prior tail number
- N739GV · 3 records
- N739VN 1978 · 3 records
- N3015E 1978 · 3 records
Showing 60 of 145 — look up any tail number to check one that isn't listed.
Other Cessna models
- 172M · 3,581 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
- 150L · 1,453 registered
Was this Cessna 172N ever wrecked under a different tail number?
The free registries search by current tail number — so a Cessna 172N 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