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N521CA

Cessna 172S

N521CA is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Aftcloud INC, a corporation in Ontario, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 20, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 6, 2014.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172S · all 172Ss and related versions
Serial number
172S9733
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2004
Transponder code
A68CD8 (octal 51506330)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 20, 2025
Expires
October 31, 2032
Last FAA action
January 29, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · August 6, 2014
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00144389

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Aftcloud INC
Type
Corporation
Address
4238 S Laguna Ave
Ontario, CA 91761-0630

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

2018-03-05Cessna T-310P · Registration expired, pending cancellation

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N521CA, 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 Aftcloud INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 20, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 6, 2014, 10 years after the 2004 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9733 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N521CA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna T-310P (serial 310P0022, cancelled March 5, 2018). 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 N521CA. 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