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N21483

Cessna 172S

Valid Iowa

N21483 is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Lima-001 LLC, an LLC in Muscatine, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 25, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 22, 2003. 3 documents are on file: loan or lien (security agreement), loan release, bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172S · all 172Ss and related versions
Serial number
172S9515
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2003
Transponder code
A1CBEA (octal 50345752)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 25, 2023
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
March 25, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · October 22, 2003
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00077499

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lima-001 LLC
Type
LLC
Address
5701 S Highway 61
Muscatine, IA 52761-1050

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 3

2026-09-04Loan or lien (security agreement)
2026-09-04Loan release
2026-09-04Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Earlier use of this number 2

1982-03-01Cessna 182P · Valid registration
1955-10-19Piper J-3 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N21483, 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 Lima-001 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 25, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 22, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9515 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N21483 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 182P (serial 18261661, cancelled March 1, 1982); Piper J-3 (serial 2335, cancelled October 19, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 4, 2026), and 1 release. The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N21483. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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