Cessna 172S
N2439Z is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Plane Nonsense INC, a corporation in Middletown, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 27, 2017 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 12, 2007.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 12:29 pm.
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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
- 172S10564
- 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
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A23ECF (octal 50437317)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 27, 2017
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 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 · July 12, 2007
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00363329
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Plane Nonsense INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1232 Choptank Rd
Middletown, DE 19709-9038
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 2
Connections how N2439Z links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,687 registered
- Cessna 72,682 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 2,650 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Plane Nonsense INC 31 aircraft in the fleet
- Middletown, DE 347 aircraft registered in this town
- Summit Airport · EVY
- Delaware 10,967 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 4,222 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 994 reports since 1995
- Where N2439Z is now · Last seen yesterday at 12:29 pm.
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The public federal record on N2439Z, 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 Plane Nonsense INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 27, 2017, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 12, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S10564 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2439Z was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 182S (serial 18280811, cancelled September 9, 2004); General Balloon Corp. AX-6 (serial 439, cancelled June 8, 1995). 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 N2439Z: Accident on November 17, 2008 at Bedford, MA: 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 inadequate compensation for winds during landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data