Cessna 172P
N51840 is a Cessna 172P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sky Bubble LLC, an LLC in Santa Ana, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 7, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 3, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17274359
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A68224 (octal 51501044)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 7, 2026
- Expires
- January 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- January 7, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 3, 1980
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00032225
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sky Bubble LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 19301 Campus Dr Ste 255-A3
Santa Ana, CA 92707-5246
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N51840, 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 Sky Bubble LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 7, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 3, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17274359 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51840 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild PT-19A (serial T43-5068, cancelled November 29, 1948). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N51840. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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