Cessna 172S
N453SP is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 4 seats. It is registered to United States Air Force Owner, a government body in Elmendorf Afb, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 23, 1999 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 10, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S8297
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A57EDF (octal 51277337)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 23, 1999
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 10, 1999
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00915952
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United States Air Force Owner
- Type
- Government
- Address
- PO Box 6292
Elmendorf Afb, AK 99506-6292 - Co-owners
- Elmendorf Aero Club Operator
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 N453SP, 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 United States Air Force Owner, a government body, certificate issued November 23, 1999, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 10, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8297 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N453SP 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 N453SP: Accident on December 28, 2008 at Girdwood, AK: 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 172S · operated under 091
The flight instructor's lack of action to correct a high and fast landing approach which resulted in a long landing, and subsequent collision with a snow berm at the end of the runway. Contributing to the accident was the student pilot's improper approach.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC09CA016 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