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N20516

Cessna 172M

Valid Texas

N20516 is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1973. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pearland, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 18, 2013 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 18, 1973.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172M · all 172Ms and related versions
Serial number
17261354
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1973
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
A1A730 (octal 50323460)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 18, 2013
Expires
June 30, 2029
Last FAA action
August 11, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · January 18, 1973
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00611122

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Arndt Scott D
Type
Individual
Address
17800 Airfield Ln
Pearland, TX 77581-6219

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N20516, 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 Arndt Scott D, an individual, certificate issued June 18, 2013, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 18, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17261354 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N20516 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 N20516: Accident on September 23, 1982 at College Station, TX: 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

FTW82DA389Accident on September 23, 1982 at College Station, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.

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

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW82DA389 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