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N259RA

Cessna 172R

Valid Texas

N259RA is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wills Point, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 15, 2008 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 8, 1998. 2 documents are on file: loan or lien (security agreement), bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172R · all 172Rs and related versions
Serial number
17280444
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1998
Transponder code
A27A65 (octal 50475145)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 15, 2008
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · April 8, 1998
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00447021

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Reynolds Darryl G
Type
Individual
Address
981 Vz County Road 3411
Wills Point, TX 75169-7595

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 2

2026-09-15Loan or lien (security agreement)
2026-09-15Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Records check free · 1 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N259RA, 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 Reynolds Darryl G, an individual, certificate issued August 15, 2008, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 8, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17280444 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N259RA according to the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 15, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N259RA. 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 September 30, 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