Cessna 172S
N5256S is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2009. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Fargo Jet Center LLC, an LLC in Fargo, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 18, 2016 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 19, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S10901
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2009
- Transponder code
- A69EBC (octal 51517274)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 18, 2016
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 19, 2009
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01035039
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fargo Jet Center LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3802 20Th St N
Fargo, ND 58102-0908
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 N5256S, 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 Fargo Jet Center LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 18, 2016, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 19, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S10901 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5256S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-32-300 (serial 3240961, cancelled December 5, 1977). 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 N5256S: Accident on June 19, 2022 at Fargo, ND: 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 172S · operated under 091
The flight instructor’s failure to adequately monitor the pilot flying, which resulted in a nose-wheel first hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN22LA281 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