Cessna 172P
N51920 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 co-owned owners in Aspers, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 3, 2012 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 6, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17274377
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A68595 (octal 51502625)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 3, 2012
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 6, 1980
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00092255
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wilkinson Edward H
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 880 Old Carlisle Rd
Aspers, PA 17304-9512 - Co-owners
- Osborn Steven R / Smith Christopher E
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 N51920, 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 Wilkinson Edward H, a co-owned, certificate issued May 3, 2012, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 6, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17274377 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51920 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild M-62A (serial T421967, cancelled April 23, 1974). 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 N51920: Accident on February 21, 1995 at Redlands, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 13, 1989 at Redlands, CA: 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 172P · operated under 091
the pilot's use of an excessive approach speed and glidepath angle and his improper bounced landing recovery technique.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX95LA133 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172P · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S IMPROPER LEVEL-OFF, RECOVERY FROM BOUNCED LANDING, AND FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL DURING THE LANDING. THE PILOT'S LIMITED RECENT EXPERIENCE WAS A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX89LA272 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