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N509SP

Cessna 172S

N509SP is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Scandinavian Aviation Academy INC, a corporation in El Cajon, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 4, 2011 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 2, 2000. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172S · all 172Ss and related versions
Serial number
172S8367
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2000
Transponder code
A65CFD (octal 51456375)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 4, 2011
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 13, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · February 2, 2000
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00426082

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Scandinavian Aviation Academy INC
Type
Corporation
Address
1835 N Marshall Ave
El Cajon, CA 92020-1122

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 1

2026-09-01Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N509SP, 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 Scandinavian Aviation Academy INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 4, 2011, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 2, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8367 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N509SP according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 1, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N509SP. 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