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N381DF

Cessna 172N

Valid Maryland

N381DF is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to South & Silver Aviation LLC, an LLC in Pikesville, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 25, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 2, 1977.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172N · all 172Ns and related versions
Serial number
17269718
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1977
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A45F52 (octal 51057522)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 25, 2023
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
February 10, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · December 2, 1977
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00442167

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
South & Silver Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
10 Jenny Ln
Pikesville, MD 21208-1613

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

2010-03-22Boeing 737-3Y0 · exported to Indonesia · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N381DF, 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 South & Silver Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 25, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 2, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17269718 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N381DF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 737-3Y0 (serial 25179, cancelled March 22, 2010). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N381DF. 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