Cessna 172RG
N5159U is a Cessna 172RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Graham, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 9, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172RG · all 172RGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 172RG0265
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A677A8 (octal 51473650)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 17, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- December 17, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 9, 1980
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00852145
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Postolnikov Paul V
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 15206 204Th St E
Graham, WA 98338-8517
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 N5159U, 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 Postolnikov Paul V, an individual, certificate issued December 17, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 9, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172RG0265 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5159U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 206 (serial 206-0159, cancelled January 3, 1968). 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 N5159U: Accident on October 15, 2017 at Auburn, 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172RG · operated under 091
The failure of the right main landing gear for reasons that could not be determined because postaccident examination did not reveal any anomalies that would have precluded normal operation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA18CA013 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