Cessna 172S
N2055R is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Wnc Aviation LLC, an LLC in Arden, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 30, 2011 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 5, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S9581
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A1A7AD (octal 50323655)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 30, 2011
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 5, 2004
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00091059
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wnc Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 229 Airport Rd Ste 7 # 127
Arden, NC 28704-6403
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 N2055R, 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 Wnc Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 30, 2011, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 5, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9581 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2055R was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Bell Helicopter Textron 206L-1 (serial 45616, cancelled December 19, 2000); Piper PA-28-180 (serial 285104, cancelled May 6, 1980); Cessna 182G (serial 18255255, cancelled March 10, 1964). 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 N2055R: Accident on November 1, 2008 at Asheville, NC: no injuries, substantial 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 improper recovery from a bounced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA09CA035 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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