Cessna 172N
N2946E 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 High Wing Air Services LLC, an LLC in Merritt Island, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 18, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 9, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17271380
- 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
- A30785 (octal 50603605)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 18, 2025
- Expires
- April 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 9, 1978
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00941143
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- High Wing Air Services LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 580 S Banana River Dr Apt 204
Merritt Island, FL 32952-3048
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 N2946E, 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 High Wing Air Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 18, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 9, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17271380 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2946E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-6532, cancelled December 14, 1950). 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]
2 NTSB records under N2946E: Accident on April 22, 1994 at Sedona, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 31, 1991 at Sedona, AZ: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172N · operated under 091
THE CFI'S IMPROPER LEVEL OFF DURING LANDING. THE TAILWIND WAS A FACTOR.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX94LA215 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172N · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S MISJUDGED LANDING FLARE AND HIS FAILURE TO MAINTAIN A PROPER GO-AROUND COURSE OVER THE RUNWAY.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX91LA336 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