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N5174A

Cessna 172

Valid Utah

N5174A is a Cessna 172, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Wells Lavar W, a partnership in Hanksville, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 17, 2008 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated January 6, 1956.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172 · all 172s and related versions
Serial number
28174
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1956
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A67E55 (octal 51477125)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 17, 2008
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · January 6, 1956
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00582175

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wells Lavar W
Type
Partnership
Address
PO Box 126
Hanksville, UT 84734-0126
Co-owners
Wells Donald L

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N5174A, 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 Wells Lavar W, a partnership, certificate issued November 17, 2008, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated January 6, 1956, consistent with the 1956 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28174 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5174A according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5174A. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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