Textron Aviation Inc 172S
N254SF 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 October 17, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 3, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S13401
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A267F0 (octal 50463760)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 17, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 28, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 3, 2025
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01498577
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
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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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N254SF, 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 October 17, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 3, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S13401 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N254SF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hillard Charlie R HAWKER FB60 (serial 37514, cancelled May 6, 2019). 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 N254SF: Accident on July 25, 2017 at Breckenridge, TX: serious 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: Hillard Charlie R HAWKER FB60 · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined because postaccident engine examination and testing did not reveal any mechanical malfunctions or anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN17LA285 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