Cessna 172S
N3550T is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Total Flight Aircraft Leasing LLC, an LLC in Apex, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S8893
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A3F9CA (octal 50774712)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 1, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00354004
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Total Flight Aircraft Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 566 Neodak Rd
Apex, NC 27523-5556
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3550T, 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 Total Flight Aircraft Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 1, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8893 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3550T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft Aviation Corp F19 (serial F009, cancelled November 16, 1992). 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 N3550T: Accident on June 3, 1992 at Suckling Hills, AK: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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: Taylorcraft F-19 · operated under 091
THE PILOT FAILED TO MAINTAIN AIRSPEED AND STALLED THE AIRPLANE. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE RISING TERRAIN.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC92LA085 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