Cessna 172S
N474SP is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Jads Aviation LLC, an LLC in Rowlett, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated September 21, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S8020
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A5D194 (octal 51350624)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 12, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 8, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · September 21, 1998
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00413636
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jads Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 6008 Teresa Ln
Rowlett, TX 75089-7412
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 N474SP, 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 Jads Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 12, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8020 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N474SP 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 N474SP: Accident on November 30, 2017 at Bowie, MD: 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’s failure to maintain situational awareness during the approach to land. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s distraction by the instrument panel during the approach.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA18CA074 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