Cessna 172R
N21SZ is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Vista Air INC, a corporation in Pacoima, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 14, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated September 16, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172R · all 172Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17280653
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A1B8D1 (octal 50334321)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 14, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · September 16, 1998
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00363666
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vista Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 10000 Airpark Way
Pacoima, CA 91331-7393
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 N21SZ, 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 Vista Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 14, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated September 16, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17280653 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N21SZ 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 N21SZ: Accident on August 14, 2008 at Cincinnati, OH: 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 172R · operated under 091
The student pilot's inadequate recovery from a bounced landing. Contributing to the accident were the improper flare and excessive airspeed.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI08CA253 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