Cessna 172S
N1053X is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Christiansen Aviation LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2022 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 4, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S9809
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A01A1E (octal 50015036)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 2022
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 4, 2005
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00169389
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Christiansen Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- Mailboxes Etc #1710
2207 Concord Pike
Wilmington, DE 19803
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N1053X, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Christiansen Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 29, 2022, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 4, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9809 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1053X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Talbot Herbert H PDQ (serial 1, cancelled January 10, 1996). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N1053X: Accident on December 10, 2005 at Lawrence, KS: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172S · operated under 091
the student pilot's improper decision to continue taxiing through the field. Contributing factor's include student pilot's failure to maintain control during the takeoff roll and the drainage ditch masked by snow.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data