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Cessna O-2A
N5252C is a Cessna O-2A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory, a corporation in North Logan, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 16, 2009 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for research and development, dated October 22, 2025.
Where is it now Last seen October 18 at 2:31 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- O-2A · all O-2As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna O-2 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 67-21353
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Cont Motor IO-360 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1967
- Transponder code
- A69E22 (octal 51517042)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 16, 2009
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- March 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Research and developmentFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 22, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00354092
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 416 e Innovation Ave
North Logan, UT 84341-1205
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N5252C links to the rest of the register
- Cessna O-2 26 registered
- Cessna 72,685 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-360 series 1,854 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- North Logan, UT 15 aircraft registered in this town
- Utah 8,353 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna O-2 2 reports since 1995
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-360 series 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-360 series 41 reports since 1995
- Where N5252C is now · Last seen October 18 at 2:31 pm.
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The public federal record on N5252C, 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 Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory, a corporation, certificate issued September 16, 2009, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 22, 2025, 58 years after the 1967 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 67-21353 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5252C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech B35 (serial D-2644, cancelled February 7, 1952). 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 N5252C. 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 November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data