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N1502E

Cessna 172S

N1502E 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 Elizbeth City State University, a government body in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 19, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 24, 2005.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172S · all 172Ss and related versions
Serial number
172S9900
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2005
Transponder code
A0CCD2 (octal 50146322)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 19, 2025
Expires
March 31, 2032
Last FAA action
March 19, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · August 24, 2005
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00193789

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Elizbeth City State University
Type
Government
Address
1704 Weeksville Rd
Elizabeth City, NC 27909-7977

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 2

2002-10-21Cessna 172N · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1955-11-18Aeronca 7AC · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N1502E, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Elizbeth City State University, a government body, certificate issued March 19, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 24, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9900 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1502E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17271026, cancelled October 21, 2002); Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-5065, cancelled November 18, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N1502E: Accident on July 11, 2002 at West Milford, NJ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

NYC02LA134Accident on July 11, 2002 at West Milford, NJ: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 17271026

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091

The flight instructor's improper recovery from a bounced landing.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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