Cessna 172N
N5241D 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 Sorbi Aviation INC, a corporation in El Cajon, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 2, 2017 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 13, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17272465
- 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
- A69A49 (octal 51515111)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 2, 2017
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 13, 1979
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00202435
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sorbi Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2075 N Marshall Ave
El Cajon, CA 92020-1119
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 N5241D, 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 Sorbi Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 2, 2017, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 13, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17272465 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5241D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 180A (serial 50139, cancelled January 14, 1958). 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 N5241D: Accident on March 22, 1991 at Hagerstown, MD: 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 172 · operated under 091
WORN CAMSHAFT LOBES WHICH RESULTED IN THE LOSS OF ENGINE POWER.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO91LA033 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