Cessna 172S
N5115B is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Wateractive43 LLC, an LLC in Auburn, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 8, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 8, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S8987
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A6682F (octal 51464057)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 8, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 8, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 8, 2001
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00573947
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wateractive43 LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2400 Rickenbacker Way
Auburn, CA 95602-9537
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N5115B, 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 Wateractive43 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 8, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8987 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5115B was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 152 (serial 15283755, cancelled December 8, 1998); Fairchild C-82 (serial 44-23048, cancelled February 24, 1956). 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 N5115B: Accident on July 31, 1993 at Corpus Christi, TX: minor 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 152 · operated under 091
AN INADVERTENT STALL. A FACTOR WAS THE PILOT'S INTENTIONAL BUZZING AT LOW ALTITUDE OVER THE BEACH.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN93LA094 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