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N2521Y

Cessna 172D

Valid Ohio

N2521Y is a Cessna 172D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1962. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Vandalia, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 2, 1962.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172D · all 172Ds and related versions
Serial number
17249821
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1962
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A2617E (octal 50460576)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 28, 2023
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
March 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · November 2, 1962
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00832962

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Clanin James Robert
Type
Individual
Address
413 Farrell Rd
Vandalia, OH 45377-9656

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N2521Y, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Clanin James Robert, an individual, certificate issued March 28, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated November 2, 1962, consistent with the 1962 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17249821 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N2521Y according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N2521Y: Accident on July 26, 1992 at Fairhope, AL: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ATL92LA146Accident on July 26, 1992 at Fairhope, AL: minor injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 17249281

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091

THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED DURING FINAL APPROACH WHICH RESULTED IN A STALL AND AN UNCONTROLLED COLLISION WITH THE GROUND SHORT OF THE RUNWAY.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL92LA146 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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