Cessna 177RG
N52120 is a Cessna 177RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Compass Aviation Maintenance LLC, an LLC in Shelby, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 2, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 16, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 177RG · all 177RGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 177RG1173
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-A1B6D · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 120 mph
- Transponder code
- A68F5C (octal 51507534)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 2, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 16, 1994
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00232355
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Compass Aviation Maintenance LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 830 College Ave
Shelby, NC 28152-9508
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.
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The public federal record on N52120, 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 Compass Aviation Maintenance LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 2, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 16, 1994, 17 years after the 1977 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 177RG1173 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N52120 according to the deregistered file. [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 N52120: Accident on July 16, 1997 at Knoxville, TN: 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 177RG · operated under 091
the pilot's inadequate preflight by failing to ensure the oil filler cap was secured during his preflight inspection, and loss of engine oil (oil exhaustion), which resulted in subsequent engine failure. A factor relating to the accident was: the lack of suitable terrain for a successful forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL97LA104 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