Cessna 172R
N5181A is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Southeastern Oklahoma State University, a government body in Durant, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 8, 2002 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 25, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172R · all 172Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17281102
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-360 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A681A3 (octal 51500643)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 8, 2002
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 25, 2002
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00083966
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southeastern Oklahoma State University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- C/O Aviation Sciences Institute
425 W University Blvd
Durant, OK 74701-3347
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 N5181A, 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 Southeastern Oklahoma State University, a government body, certificate issued May 8, 2002, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 25, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17281102 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5181A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172 (serial 28181, cancelled April 7, 1976). 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]
2 NTSB records under N5181A: Accident on August 28, 2025 at Ardmore, OK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 26, 2007 at Stillwater, OK: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172R · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard, bounced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN25LA350 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
The student pilot's improper recovery from a bounced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW08CA021 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