Cessna 172R
N2465Q is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. 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 an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated September 19, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172R · all 172Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17281271
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Superior IO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A2495F (octal 50444537)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 23, 2022
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Research and development · September 19, 2014
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00215989
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Christiansen Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- 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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N2465Q, 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]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 19, 2014, 9 years after the 2005 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17281271 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2465Q was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182K (serial 18257665, cancelled January 18, 2001). 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 N2465Q: Accident on December 14, 1995 at Tamms, IL: 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 182 · operated under 091
fuel exhaustion due to inadequate maintenance performed on the fuel cap by the maintenance personnel, fuel siphoning out of the left fuel cap, and the failure of the pilot to properly monitor his fuel consumption.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI96LA051 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