Cessna 172P
N52280 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 Southern Air LLC, an LLC in Marissa, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2017 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 10, 1980. 2 documents are on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership), loan or lien (security agreement).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17274479
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A693E5 (octal 51511745)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 14, 2017
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 10, 1980
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00922525
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southern Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 17
Marissa, IL 62257-0017
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 2
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N52280, 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 Southern Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 14, 2017, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 10, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17274479 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N52280 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 182P (serial 18262506, cancelled November 7, 1973); Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR (serial 1806, cancelled December 9, 1963). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 24, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N52280. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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