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N5212X

Cessna 172S

N5212X is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Strafford, New Hampshire. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 10, 2007 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 5, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172S · all 172Ss and related versions
Serial number
172S9120
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2002
Transponder code
A68F59 (octal 51507531)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 10, 2007
Expires
April 30, 2029
Last FAA action
July 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · September 5, 2002
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00007339

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Moore John S
Type
Individual
Address
120 Perry Rd
Strafford, NH 03884-6386

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 2

1995-07-19Cessna TU206G · exported to South Africa · Valid registration
1962-06-22Cessna 320 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5212X, 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 Moore John S, an individual, certificate issued January 10, 2007, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 5, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9120 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5212X was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna TU206G (serial U20605598, cancelled July 19, 1995); Cessna 320 (serial 320-0112, cancelled June 22, 1962). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5212X. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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