Cessna 172S
N5088Q is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Metro Aircraft CO, a corporation in Bloomington, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 27, 2002 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 13, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S8972
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A65B27 (octal 51455447)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 27, 2002
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- February 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 13, 2001
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00124017
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Metro Aircraft CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1600 W 82Nd St Ste 100
Bloomington, MN 55431-1411
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 N5088Q, 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 Metro Aircraft CO, a corporation, certificate issued February 27, 2002, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 13, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8972 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5088Q was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 152 (serial 15285070, cancelled July 27, 1999). 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]
2 NTSB records under N5088Q: Accident on November 28, 1998 at Easton, MD: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 31, 1986 at Willimantic, CT: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 152 · operated under 091
The failure of both the pilot-in-command (CFI) and dual student of the other aircraft (Pitts) to maintain adequate visual lookout.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for IAD99LA022 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 152 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC86LA223 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