Cessna 172S
N5043J is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2008. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Valiair Lc Trustee, an LLC in Casper, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 6, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 4, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S10861
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A64B96 (octal 51445626)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 6, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 6, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 4, 2008
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01019691
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Valiair Lc Trustee
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 330 S Center St Ste 300
Casper, WY 82601-2873
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5043J, 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 Valiair Lc Trustee, an LLC, certificate issued June 6, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 4, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S10861 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5043J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 310R (serial 310R0163, cancelled September 11, 2002). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N5043J: Accident on December 6, 2001 at Sidney, MT: 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 310 · operated under 135
The pilot's improper abort procedure and inadequate remedial action, leading to a loss of directional control after losing power in one engine during the takeoff roll. Factors include the loss of power from one engine, and a fence around the perimeter of the airport.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA02LA019 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