Cessna 172R
N5294W is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in East Leroy, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 30, 2022 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 20, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172R · all 172Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17281186
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A6AD56 (octal 51526526)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 30, 2022
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 20, 2003
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00064759
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sonneborn Arthur Aaron
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 118 Hazel Ave
East Leroy, MI 49051-9744
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 N5294W, 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 Sonneborn Arthur Aaron, an individual, certificate issued August 30, 2022, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 20, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17281186 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5294W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-28 (serial 28345, cancelled March 1, 1982). 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 N5294W: Accident on November 21, 2004 at Martinsburg, WV: 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 172R · operated under 091
A loss of engine power for undetermined reasons.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC05LA024 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