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N172CY

Cessna 172S

Valid Texas

N172CY is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Anson Air LLC, an LLC in Sugar Land, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 12, 2014 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 15, 2001.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172S · all 172Ss and related versions
Serial number
172S8729
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2001
Transponder code
A120E4 (octal 50220344)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 12, 2014
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · February 15, 2001
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00353604

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Anson Air LLC
Type
LLC
Address
12888 S Highway 6 Ste 300
Sugar Land, TX 77498-5710

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N172CY, 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 Anson Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 12, 2014, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 15, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8729 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N172CY according to the deregistered file. [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 N172CY: Accident on July 25, 2010 at Santa Maria, CA: 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

WPR10CA475Accident on July 25, 2010 at Santa Maria, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.

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

The pilot's inadequate flare which resulted in a bounce and hard landing.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR10CA475 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 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