Cessna 172S
N15255 is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Elizabeth City State University, a government body in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 21, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 9, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S10455
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A0D4C2 (octal 50152302)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 21, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 21, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 9, 2007
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00315679
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elizabeth 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 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N15255, 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 Elizabeth City State University, a government body, certificate issued May 21, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 9, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S10455 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N15255 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Firefly Balloons Inc FIREFLY 8B-15 (serial F8B-2032, cancelled April 1, 2004); Aeronca C-3 (serial A-322, cancelled October 8, 1935); Piper PA-28-180 (serial 287305044, 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 N15255: Accident on November 18, 1983 at Northfield, MN: minor injuries, destroyed. 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: Piper PA-28-180 · operated under 091
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