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Cessna R172K: 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 R172K aircraft are registered
Count of currently registered Cessna R172K aircraft by registration state (FAA). Aggregate counts only.
| State | Registered |
|---|---|
| California | 62 |
| Texas | 55 |
| Florida | 32 |
| Colorado | 31 |
| Alaska | 28 |
| Washington | 27 |
Cessna R172K airframes with a public accident record
These Cessna R172K 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.
- N122XP · 1 record prior tail number
- N14PN 1977 · 1 record prior tail number
- N150JB 1977 · 1 record prior tail number
- N172DD 1977 · 1 record prior tail number
- N172XP 1979 · 1 record prior tail number
- N228KY 1978 · 1 record prior tail number
- N296BW 1977 · 1 record prior tail number
- N69FZ · 1 record prior tail number
- N736UA 1977 · 1 record prior tail number
- N803HL 1979 · 1 record prior tail number
- N900RT 1979 · 1 record prior tail number
- N1055V 1976 · 1 record
- N1071V 1976 · 1 record
- N1086V 1976 · 1 record
- N1258V · 1 record
- N1530V 1976 · 1 record
- N172SP 1977 · 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 R172K ever wrecked under a different tail number?
The free registries search by current tail number — so a Cessna R172K 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