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N5116B

Cessna 172S

Valid Maryland

N5116B is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Quantum Aviation LLC, an LLC in Manchester, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 18, 2005 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 29, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172S · all 172Ss and related versions
Serial number
172S9161
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2002
Transponder code
A66852 (octal 51464122)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 18, 2005
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 26, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · August 29, 2002
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00005739

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Quantum Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
2975 Manchester Rd # B
Manchester, MD 21102-1802

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 4

1998-12-16Air Tractor Inc AT-802 · exported to Spain · Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate
1995-08-03Myers Michael J AVID FLYER · Valid registration
1988-12-15Cessna 152 · N-number assigned but not yet registered
1971-01-25Fairchild C-82 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5116B, 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 Quantum Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 18, 2005, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 29, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9161 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5116B was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Air Tractor Inc AT-802 (serial 8020071, cancelled December 16, 1998); Myers Michael J AVID FLYER (serial 307, cancelled August 3, 1995); Cessna 152 (serial 15283756, cancelled December 15, 1988). 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 N5116B. 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