Cessna 172R
N2438S is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Mid-Island Air Service INC, a corporation in Ronkonkoma, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 2, 2000 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 20, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172R · all 172Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17280875
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A23EA5 (octal 50437245)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 2, 2000
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 20, 2000
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00695680
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mid-Island Air Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- Long Island Macarthur Airport
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N2438S, 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 Mid-Island Air Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 2, 2000, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 20, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17280875 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2438S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Loukota Douglas Crawford MIRAGE (serial M465, cancelled date not given). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2438S. 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 September 30, 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