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Cessna 172R: 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 172R aircraft are registered
Count of currently registered Cessna 172R aircraft by registration state (FAA). Aggregate counts only.
| State | Registered |
|---|---|
| Florida | 97 |
| Delaware | 86 |
| California | 75 |
| Texas | 53 |
| Illinois | 32 |
| Alabama | 20 |
Cessna 172R airframes with a public accident record
These Cessna 172R 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.
- N402PE 1998 · 3 records prior tail number
- N702GR 1998 · 2 records prior tail number
- N110LU 2006 · 1 record prior tail number
- N172TQ 1998 · 1 record prior tail number
- N314RA 1998 · 1 record prior tail number
- N406FR · 1 record prior tail number
- N576BW · 1 record prior tail number
- N57FA 1997 · 1 record prior tail number
- N793WT 1997 · 1 record prior tail number
- N822KT 1999 · 1 record prior tail number
- N944LA 1998 · 1 record prior tail number
- N1590W 2005 · 2 records
- N178AF 2003 · 2 records
- N212CF 1998 · 2 records
- N22055 · 2 records
- N2382R 1999 · 2 records
- N2384L 1999 · 2 records
- N2460A 2000 · 2 records
- N249FS 2005 · 2 records
- N35408 · 2 records
- N368ES 1997 · 2 records
- N4172P 1997 · 2 records
- N5181A 2002 · 2 records
- N51827 2002 · 2 records
- N64AF 1997 · 2 records
- N94JA 1998 · 2 records
- N9525V 1998 · 2 records
- N9968F 1997 · 2 records
- N387MA 1998 · 1 record
- N656MA · 1 record
- N10632 2007 · 1 record
- N118ET 1997 · 1 record
- N121UC 1998 · 1 record
- N133VU 2003 · 1 record
- N1589D 2005 · 1 record
- N158RA 1999 · 1 record
- N17274 1998 · 1 record
- N172EF 2000 · 1 record
- N172GH 1997 · 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 172R ever wrecked under a different tail number?
The free registries search by current tail number — so a Cessna 172R 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