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N503E

Cessna 172

N503E is a Cessna 172, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Summerfield, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 24, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated February 13, 1956.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172 · all 172s and related versions
Serial number
28361
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1956
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A64579 (octal 51442571)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 24, 2023
Expires
October 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 24, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · February 13, 1956
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00931015

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Tar Dennis W
Type
Individual
Address
6213 Bradford Place Ct
Summerfield, NC 27358-7000

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

1939-07-15Av Roe & Co Ltd AVRO 594 AVIAN IV · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N503E, 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 Tar Dennis W, an individual, certificate issued October 24, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated February 13, 1956, consistent with the 1956 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28361 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N503E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Av Roe & Co Ltd AVRO 594 AVIAN IV (serial 195, cancelled July 15, 1939). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N503E. 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