Cessna 172M
N20521 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 N20521 LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 2, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 19, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17261359
- 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
- A1A74E (octal 50323516)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 2, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 2, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · January 19, 1973
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00971112
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- N20521 LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1013 Centre Rd Ste 403-A
Wilmington, DE 19805-1270
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.
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The public federal record on N20521, 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 N20521 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 2, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 19, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17261359 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N20521 according to the deregistered file. [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 N20521: Accident on March 21, 2019 at Hollywood, FL: 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 172 · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to maintain adequate clearance from the stopped airplane while attempting to taxi around it.
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 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