Cessna 172N
N1517E is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Heavy Metal Air LLC, an LLC in Farmingdale, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 11, 2020 and expires on March 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 13, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17271031
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A0D138 (octal 50150470)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 11, 2020
- Expires
- March 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 13, 1978
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00680840
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heavy Metal Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7150 Republic Airport Ste 101
Farmingdale, NY 11735-3999
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 N1517E, 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 Heavy Metal Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 11, 2020, expires March 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 13, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17271031 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1517E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-5080, cancelled June 20, 1956). 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 N1517E: Accident on December 22, 2025 at East Farmingdale, NY: no injuries, minor 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 172N · operated under 091
A loss of brake effectiveness during taxi, which resulted in a collision with another airplane.
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