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N52012

Cessna 172P

Valid Louisiana

N52012 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 Skylens LLC, an LLC in Hammond, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 2014 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 11, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172P · all 172Ps and related versions
Serial number
17274393
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1980
Transponder code
A68B84 (octal 51505604)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 25, 2014
Expires
September 30, 2027
Last FAA action
June 26, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · November 11, 1980
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00382305

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Skylens LLC
Type
LLC
Address
712 Judge Leon Ford Dr
Hammond, LA 70401-9590

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

1971-01-04Boeing A75L3 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N52012, 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 Skylens LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 25, 2014, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 11, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17274393 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N52012 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing A75L3 (serial 75-4568, cancelled January 4, 1971). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N52012: Accident on July 23, 2001 at Dayton, OH: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

NYC01LA185Accident on July 23, 2001 at Dayton, OH: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091

The pilot excessive flare, which resulted in a hard landing.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC01LA185 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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