Cessna 172P
N52685 is a Cessna 172P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Glidewell Aviation INC, a corporation in Parkland, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 25, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 18, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17274580
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A6A2C6 (octal 51521306)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 25, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 25, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 18, 1998
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00962535
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Glidewell Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 12189 NW 72Nd St
Parkland, FL 33076-4611
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N52685, 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 Glidewell Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 25, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 18, 1998, 17 years after the 1981 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 17274580 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N52685 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna UC-78B (serial 6213 (43-32275), cancelled November 15, 1972). 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 N52685: Accident on October 15, 2001 at Knoxville, TN: 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 172P · operated under 091
The pilot's inattentive preflight inspection, non-compliance with the prestart checklist, decision to leave the cockpit unattended with engine running, and his inadvertent deactivation of the parking brake as he exited to remove a wheel chock, resulting in non-piloted taxi from the aircraft's starting point and collision with an airport terminal structure.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA02LA009 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