Cessna 172N
N2896E is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Flight Club 502 INC, a corporation in Louisville, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 25, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17271365
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A2F299 (octal 50571231)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 20, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 20, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 25, 1978
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00270583
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flight Club 502 INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2911 Taylorsville Rd
Louisville, KY 40205-3102
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N2896E, 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 Flight Club 502 INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 20, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 25, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17271365 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2896E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-6479, cancelled January 11, 1952). 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 N2896E: Accident on November 7, 1982 at Loris, SC: no 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: Cessna 172N · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL83LA026 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