Cessna 172N
N5251E is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Rhinelander Flying Service INC, a corporation in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 1985 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; aerial surveying, dated June 25, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17271799
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A69E01 (octal 51517001)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 14, 1985
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Aerial surveying · June 25, 1992
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00652475
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rhinelander Flying Service INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Bocx 501
Rhinelander, WI 54501
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 N5251E, 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 Rhinelander Flying Service INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 14, 1985, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 25, 1992, 15 years after the 1977 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17271799 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5251E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 180B (serial 50551, cancelled February 16, 1962). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5251E. 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