Cessna 172P
N51380 is a Cessna 172P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Aircraft Leasing INC, a corporation in Everett, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 1992 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 20, 1980.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Morcom Aviation Services, INC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 12:06 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 172 Skyhawk family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 17274305
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A6701D (octal 51470035)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 1, 1992
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 20, 1980
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00931435
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aircraft Leasing INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- C/O Regal Air
10100 30Th Ave W Ste C51
Everett, WA 98204-1394
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
Connections how N51380 links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,693 registered
- Cessna 72,678 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Morcom Aviation Services, INC · charter operator
- Lycoming O-320 series 27,305 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Aircraft Leasing INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Everett, WA 114 aircraft registered in this town
- Seattle Paine Field International · PAE
- Washington 10,664 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 4,222 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 857 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
- Where N51380 is now · Last seen Thursday at 12:06 pm.
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The public federal record on N51380, 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 Aircraft Leasing INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 1, 1992, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 20, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17274305 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51380 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 150J (serial 15069964, cancelled April 6, 1973); Cessna T-50 (serial 5954, cancelled May 21, 1951). 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 N51380: Accident on April 14, 2021 at Bellingham, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 4, 1996 at Friday Harbor, WA: 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 172P · operated under 091
The student pilot’s inadequate flare resulting in a loss of control during landing with a crosswind and subsequent nose over.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172P · operated under 091
the pilot's misjudgment of the aircraft's altitude above the runway and failure to flare for landing. Darkness (bright night) was a related factor.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data