Textron Aviation Inc 172S
N246SF is a Textron Aviation Inc 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Ab Prop Plane I LLC, an LLC in Metairie, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 11, 2025. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S13442
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A247DF (octal 50443737)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- March 28, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 11, 2025
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01523676
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ab Prop Plane I LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3838 N Causeway Blvd Ste 3335
Metairie, LA 70002-8361
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 1
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The public federal record on N246SF, 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 Ab Prop Plane I LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 28, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 11, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S13442 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N246SF according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 29, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N246SF. 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 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