Cessna 172S
N512SP 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 Avolant Aviation LLC, an LLC in Mooresville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 3, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 3, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S8371
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A66A7B (octal 51465173)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 3, 2022
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 3, 2000
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00823543
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Avolant Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 424 Oak Tree Rd
Mooresville, NC 28117-5920
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N512SP, 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 Avolant Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 3, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 3, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8371 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N512SP according to the deregistered file. [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 N512SP: Accident on January 14, 2024 at Mooresville, NC: serious 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 172 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain control of the airplane during a go-around in gusting crosswind conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA24LA090 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