Cessna 172R
N249FS 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 Advanced Charter & Instruction LLC, an LLC in Costa Mesa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 7, 2019 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 27, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172R · all 172Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17281249
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A251FC (octal 50450774)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 7, 2019
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · June 27, 2005
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00176939
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Advanced Charter & Instruction LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1006 Poppy Cir
Costa Mesa, CA 92626-1672
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 N249FS, 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 Advanced Charter & Instruction LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 7, 2019, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated June 27, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17281249 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N249FS 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]
2 NTSB records under N249FS: Accident on March 11, 2018 at Bedford, MA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 13, 2007 at Fort Collins, CO: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in substantial damage.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA18CA163 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172R · operated under 091
The student pilot's improper flare and recovery from a bounced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN07CA154 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data