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N428DW

Cessna 172S

Valid Arizona

N428DW 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 Arizona Cloudbusters INC, a corporation in Mesa, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 16, 2010 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 24, 2001.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172S · all 172Ss and related versions
Serial number
172S8708
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2001
Transponder code
A519B7 (octal 51214667)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 16, 2010
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · January 24, 2001
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00353785

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Arizona Cloudbusters INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 7465
Mesa, AZ 85216-7465

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N428DW, 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 Arizona Cloudbusters INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 16, 2010, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 24, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8708 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N428DW according to the deregistered file. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N428DW: Accident on May 11, 2024 at Chandler, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

WPR24LA320Accident on May 11, 2024 at Chandler, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172S · operated under 091

The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from obstacles during taxi operations.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR24LA320 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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