Cessna 172S
N35253 is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Metairie, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 15, 2017 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 9, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S8831
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0-360-B1E · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A3EF5E (octal 50767536)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 15, 2017
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 9, 2001
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00953884
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Liu Kaiyu
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7009 Ithaca St
Metairie, LA 70003-3117
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N35253, 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 Liu Kaiyu, an individual, certificate issued November 15, 2017, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 9, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8831 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N35253 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Elam Daryl B MAXAIR DRIFTER (serial 111590, cancelled October 5, 1994); Cessna 177B (serial 17702292, cancelled March 19, 1990). 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 N35253: Accident on May 29, 1988 at Milford, DE: serious injuries, destroyed. 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 177 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO88LA052 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