Textron Aviation Inc 172S
N1488C is a Textron Aviation Inc 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2022. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Christiansen Aviation LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 30, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S12896
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A0C3DB (octal 50141733)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 30, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 30, 2022
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01371451
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Christiansen Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2207 Concord Pike # 1710
Wilmington, DE 19803-2908
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 N1488C, 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 January 30, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 30, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S12896 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1488C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22-135 (serial 221207, cancelled date not given). 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 N1488C: Accident on April 28, 2006 at Willows, CA: 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: Cirrus SR-20 · operated under 091
the pilot's misjudged landing flare and improper recovery from a bounced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX06CA173 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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