Cessna 172S
N3544Z is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sky Chiefs Aviation LLC, an LLC in Gainesville, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 6, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 26, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S8999
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A3F6A5 (octal 50773245)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 6, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 6, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 26, 2001
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00423977
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sky Chiefs Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7693 SW 57Th Ln Apt 160
Gainesville, FL 32608-4594
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3544Z, 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 Sky Chiefs Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 6, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8999 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3544Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22-150 (serial 22-7453, cancelled April 24, 1961). 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 N3544Z: Accident on August 29, 2007 at Bakersfield, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 18, 2006 at Madera, CA: 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 172S · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane during the landing roll, which resulted in a collision with a taxiway sign.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA07CA243 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172S · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing rollout.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX06CA174 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