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N51413

Cessna 172S

Valid Michigan

N51413 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 co-owned owners in Ludington, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 31, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 18, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172S · all 172Ss and related versions
Serial number
172S9042
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2002
Transponder code
A672E2 (octal 51471342)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 31, 2025
Expires
October 31, 2032
Last FAA action
October 31, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · February 18, 2002
FAA region
Great Lakes
Ownership
Fractional
FAA record id
00304117

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mcpike William C
Type
Co-owned
Address
1394 N Lendale Rd
Ludington, MI 49431-1132
Co-owners
Barbrick John L / Sarto Douglas E / Parker William M / Siefka Joshua C

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

1997-02-27Cessna A185F · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1989-10-18Cessna 150J · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N51413, 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 Mcpike William C, a co-owned, certificate issued October 31, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. Fractional ownership is recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 18, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9042 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N51413 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna A185F (serial 18503594, cancelled February 27, 1997); Cessna 150J (serial 15069993, cancelled October 18, 1989). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N51413: Accident on July 25, 1988 at Palmyra, NY: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

NYC88FA193Accident on July 25, 1988 at Palmyra, NY: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 150-69993

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 150J · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC88FA193 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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