Cessna 172S
N5172W 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 Ocala Aviation Services INC, a corporation in Ocala, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 7, 2002 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 20, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S9043
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A67E23 (octal 51477043)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 7, 2002
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 20, 2002
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00484137
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ocala Aviation Services INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1200 SW 60Th Ave
Ocala, FL 34474-9300
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 N5172W, 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 Ocala Aviation Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 7, 2002, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 20, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9043 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5172W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28 (serial 28-203, cancelled June 9, 1999). 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 N5172W: Accident on June 11, 1996 at Bountiful, UT: minor 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: Piper PA-28-150 · operated under 091
inadequate fuel management by the student pilot, which resulted in fuel starvation, due to an improperly positioned fuel selector. Factors relating to the accident were: the pilot's inadequate remedial action, and a ditch in the emergency landing area.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA96LA119 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