Cessna 172R
N3508J is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Dhs Operations LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 11, 2013 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 27, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172R · all 172Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17281060
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A3E846 (octal 50764106)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 11, 2013
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 27, 2001
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00903827
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dhs Operations LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 251 Little Falls Dr
Wilmington, DE 19808-1674
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N3508J, 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 Dhs Operations LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 11, 2013, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 27, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17281060 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3508J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150E (serial 15061208, cancelled March 17, 1965). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N3508J. 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