Cessna 172S
N215LP is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Christiansen Aviation LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 23, 2022 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 5, 2002.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 172 Skyhawk family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 172S9215
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A1CD1D (octal 50346435)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 23, 2022
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 5, 2002
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00007989
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Christiansen Aviation LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- Mailboxes Etc #1710
2207 Concord Pike
Wilmington, DE 19803
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.
Connections how N215LP links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,680 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360-L2A 2,646 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Christiansen Aviation LLC 321 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to April 16, 2027
- Wilmington, DE 7,375 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,965 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 4,220 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 857 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360-L2A 26 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360-L2A 993 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N215LP, 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 Christiansen Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 23, 2022, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 5, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9215 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N215LP 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 N215LP: Accident on December 12, 2021 at Hazleton, PA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172S · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain proper airspeed on approach in tailwind conditions, which resulted in an extended touchdown, bounced landing, and runway excursion.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data