Textron Aviation Inc 172S
N402CA is a Textron Aviation Inc 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2024. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Civil Air Patrol, a corporation in Maxwell Afb, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 15, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 21, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S13235
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2024
- Transponder code
- A4B442 (octal 51132102)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 15, 2025
- Expires
- January 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- January 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 21, 2024
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01468890
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Civil Air Patrol
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 105 S Hansell St Bldg 714
Maxwell Afb, AL 36112-5937
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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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N402CA, 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 Civil Air Patrol, a corporation, certificate issued January 15, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 21, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S13235 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N402CA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 402B (serial 402B0842, cancelled March 11, 2015). 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 N402CA: Accident on October 21, 2005 at Sandpoint, ID: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 402B · operated under 091
The pilot's misjudged distance/altitude, which led to him landing short of the runway and impacting the runway's elevated lip. Contributing factors were the elevated runway lip and the right main landing gear failure.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA06LA011 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