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N259BD

Textron Aviation Inc 172S

N259BD 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 Rainier Flight Service LLC, an LLC in Renton, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 28, 2025.

Aircraft

Maker
Textron Aviation Inc
Model
172S · all 172Ss and related versions
Serial number
172S13356
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2025
Transponder code
A2790A (octal 50474412)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 23, 2025
Expires
July 31, 2032
Last FAA action
July 23, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · May 28, 2025
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
01487925

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rainier Flight Service LLC
Type
LLC
Address
800 W Perimeter Rd
Renton, WA 98057-5328

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N259BD, 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 Rainier Flight Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 23, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 28, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S13356 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N259BD 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N259BD. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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