Cessna 172N
N5208D is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Varsity Flight Ops LLC, an LLC in Las Vegas, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 15, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 12, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17272451
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A68C62 (octal 51506142)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 15, 2025
- Expires
- December 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- December 15, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 12, 1979
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00002335
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Varsity Flight Ops LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- W Tropicana Ave Ste 156
Las Vegas, NV 89147
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 N5208D, 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 Varsity Flight Ops LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 15, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 12, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17272451 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5208D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 180A (serial 50106, cancelled December 1, 1970). 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]
1 NTSB record under N5208D: Accident on April 20, 1995 at Detroit, MI: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172N · operated under 091
the student pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the takeoff ground run. A factor associated with the accident was the soft terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI95LA132 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