Cessna 172S
N280JA is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Flying Tigers Flight School LTD, a partnership in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 22, 2013 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 24, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S8620
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A2CEC4 (octal 50547304)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 22, 2013
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 24, 2000
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00285920
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flying Tigers Flight School LTD
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 12711 Blume Ave
Houston, TX 77034-5632
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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N280JA, 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 Flying Tigers Flight School LTD, a partnership, certificate issued February 22, 2013, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 24, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8620 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N280JA 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N280JA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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