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N363SP

Cessna 172S

N363SP 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 Orange County Flight Center INC, a corporation in Santa Ana, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 22, 2001. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172S · all 172Ss and related versions
Serial number
172S8781
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2001
Transponder code
A4190F (octal 51014417)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 15, 2016
Expires
September 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 2, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · March 22, 2001
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00613674

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Orange County Flight Center INC
Type
Corporation
Address
19531 Campus Dr Ste 4
Santa Ana, CA 92707-5207

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 1

2026-09-22Loan or lien (security agreement)

Records check free · 1 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N363SP, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Orange County Flight Center INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 15, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 22, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8781 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N363SP according to the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 22, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N363SP. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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