Cessna 172M
N20543 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 Sierra Delta Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 29, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 29, 1973. 2 documents are on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership), loan release.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17261380
- 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
- A1A796 (octal 50323626)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 29, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 29, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · January 29, 1973
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00091132
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sierra Delta Aircraft LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1001 S Main St Ste 49
Kalispell, MT 59901-5635
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 2
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N20543, 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 Sierra Delta Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 29, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 29, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17261380 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N20543 according to the deregistered file. [2]
2 documents received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 9, 2026), Loan release (September 10, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N20543. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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