Cessna 172S
N144ME is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Bell Enterprises INC, a corporation in Falls Church, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 6, 2004 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 13, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S8428
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A0B2A4 (octal 50131244)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 6, 2004
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- January 27, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 13, 2000
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00515620
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bell Enterprises INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 7547 Chrisland Cv
Falls Church, VA 22042-7563
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.
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The public federal record on N144ME, 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 Bell Enterprises INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 6, 2004, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 13, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8428 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N144ME according to the deregistered file. [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]
2 NTSB records under N144ME: Accident on March 7, 2015 at Richmond, VA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 13, 2009 at York, PA: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172S · operated under 091
The student pilot's inadequate landing flare which resulted in a hard landing and substantial damage to the airplane.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
The student pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data