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N5262H

Cessna 172M

N5262H is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1975. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Bun Air CORP, a corporation in Bedford, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 16, 1992 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 28, 1975. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172M · all 172Ms and related versions
Serial number
17265388
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1975
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
A6A1DE (octal 51520736)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 16, 1992
Expires
November 30, 2028
Last FAA action
June 23, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · May 28, 1975
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00512495

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bun Air CORP
Type
Corporation
Address
697 Belden Rd
Bedford, PA 15522-7811

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 1

2026-08-31Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Earlier use of this number 1

1957-11-18Piper PA-16 · exported to Chile · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N5262H, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Bun Air CORP, a corporation, certificate issued November 16, 1992, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 28, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17265388 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5262H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-16 (serial 16-66, cancelled November 18, 1957). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (August 31, 2026). [3]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5262H: Accident on January 27, 1993 at Bedford, PA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

NYC93LA058Accident on January 27, 1993 at Bedford, PA: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 65388

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172M · operated under 091

THE PILOT ATTEMPTED TO LAND IN A CROSS WIND, LOST CONTROL OF THE AIRPLANE, LANDED OFF THE RUNWAY, SWERVED TOWARDS A HANGER AFTER GOING THREW A SNOW BANK RESULTING IN THE LEFT WING STRIKING THE HANGER.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC93LA058 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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