Cessna 172K
N524ME is a Cessna 172K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Colleyville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 2, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 10, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172K · all 172Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- 17258149
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A698E2 (octal 51514342)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 2, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 10, 1969
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00332445
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Lester C JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 130 Mill Crossing East
Colleyville, TX 76034
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N524ME, 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 Smith Lester C JR, an individual, certificate issued March 2, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17258149 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N524ME 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N524ME. 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