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A Cessna R172 Hawk XP, the same model family as N52HP
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N52HP

Cessna R172E

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlabama
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N52HP is a Cessna R172E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Heritage Aviation Management LLC, an LLC in Headland, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 7, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
R172E · all R172Es and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna R172 Hawk XP 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
R1720079
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · None NONE
Seats
4
Year built
1967
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
A68752 (octal 51503522)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
May 7, 2025
Expires
May 31, 2032
Last FAA action
May 7, 2025
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00182295

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Heritage Aviation Management LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
PO Box 242
Headland, AL 36345-0242

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.

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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N52HP, 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 Heritage Aviation Management LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 7, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial R1720079 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N52HP according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N52HP. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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.

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data