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N5181B

Cessna 172R

Valid Oklahoma

N5181B 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 26, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172R · all 172Rs and related versions
Serial number
17281103
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-360 SER · 300 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2002
Transponder code
A681A4 (octal 51500644)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 8, 2002
Expires
September 30, 2027
Last FAA action
March 17, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · March 26, 2002
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00093966

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Type
Government
Address
Aviation Sciences Institute
425 W University Blvd
Durant, OK 74701-3347

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 1

1978-04-17Bell 47G-2 · exported to Panama · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5181B, 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 Southeastern Oklahoma State University, a government body, certificate issued May 8, 2002, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 26, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17281103 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5181B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 47G-2 (serial 2014, cancelled April 17, 1978). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N5181B. 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