Cessna 172L
N4256Q is a Cessna 172L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Burnham Cessna N4256Q LLC, an LLC in Carr, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 2009 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 8, 1971.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172L · all 172Ls and related versions
- Serial number
- 17260156
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A5116B (octal 51210553)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 11, 2009
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 8, 1971
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00431844
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Burnham Cessna N4256Q LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 6932 County Road 110
Carr, CO 80612-8908
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.
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The public federal record on N4256Q, 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 Burnham Cessna N4256Q LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 11, 2009, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 8, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17260156 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4256Q according to the deregistered file. [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 N4256Q: Accident on November 15, 2015 at Greeley, CO: 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 172 · operated under 091
The pilot of the following airplane failed to maintain adequate spacing during the taxi to the runway, resulting in a collision with the lead airplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16CA058 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data