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N485JM

Textron Aviation Inc 172S

Valid Alabama

N485JM is a Textron Aviation Inc 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sanders Flight Training Center INC, a corporation in Jasper, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 31, 2025. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).

Aircraft

Maker
Textron Aviation Inc
Model
172S · all 172Ss and related versions
Serial number
172S13465
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2025
Transponder code
A5FC00 (octal 51376000)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 1, 2026
Expires
April 30, 2033
Last FAA action
April 1, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · December 31, 2025
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
01530818

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sanders Flight Training Center INC
Type
Corporation
Address
20 Ellis Haynes Dr
Jasper, AL 35503-3567

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Documents on file 1

2026-09-01Loan or lien (security agreement)

Earlier use of this number 1

2013-07-08Maple James D MU 532 DRIFTER · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Records check free · 2 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N485JM, 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 Sanders Flight Training Center INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 1, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 31, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S13465 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N485JM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Maple James D MU 532 DRIFTER (serial DR0295, cancelled July 8, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 1, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N485JM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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