Cessna 172S
N5158J 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 Tfs Air LLC, an LLC in Loveland, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 5, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 23, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S9027
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A6777B (octal 51473573)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 5, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 5, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · January 23, 2002
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00514077
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tfs Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 4824 Earhart Rd
Loveland, CO 80538-8901
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5158J, 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 Tfs Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 5, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 23, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9027 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5158J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 340 (serial 3400548, cancelled November 2, 1994). 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 N5158J: Accident on May 18, 1994 at Elko, NV: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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 340 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S CONTINUED FLIGHT INTO INSTRUMENT METEOROLOGICAL CONDITIONS (IMC), AND HIS FAILURE TO MAINTAIN ALTITUDE (OR CLEARANCE) FROM MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: THE ADVERSE WEATHER CONDITIONS, HIGH (MOUNTAINOUS/HILLY) TERRAIN, AND THE PILOT'S LACK OF INSTRUMENT EXPERIENCE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW94FA165 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