Cessna 172S
N480SP is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Dhs Operations LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 6, 2013 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 28, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S8025
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A5EA37 (octal 51365067)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 6, 2013
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 28, 1998
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00253636
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dhs Operations LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 251 Little Falls Dr
Wilmington, DE 19808-1674
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 N480SP, 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 Dhs Operations LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 6, 2013, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 28, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8025 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N480SP 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 N480SP: Accident on March 29, 2012 at Midlothian, TX: 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 pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN12LA214 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