Cessna 172S
N51387 is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 4 seats. It is registered to 10Fss - Usafa Aero Club, a government body in Usafa, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 25, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 18, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S9013
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A67024 (octal 51470044)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 25, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 18, 2001
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00934007
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- 10Fss - Usafa Aero Club
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 9222 Airfield Dr
Usafa, CO 80840
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N51387, 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 10Fss - Usafa Aero Club, a government body, certificate issued April 25, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 18, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9013 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51387 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: British Aircraft Corp BAC 1-11 422/EQ (serial 126, cancelled April 17, 1997); Cessna 172P (serial 17274306, cancelled April 20, 1989); Cessna T-50 (serial 5831, cancelled date not given). 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 N51387: Accident on January 27, 2025 at Air Force Academy, CO: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172S · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain airplane control during final approach after encountering an unexpected windshear.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA088 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