Cessna 172N
N5301E is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Longview, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 1, 2026 and expires on October 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 17, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N
- Serial number
- 17271827
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A6B2ED (octal 51531355)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 1, 2026
- Expires
- October 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- October 1, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 17, 1978
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00312685
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Maxwell Don P II
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 390 Central Rd
Longview, TX 75603-7059
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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The public federal record on N5301E, 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 Maxwell Don P II, an individual, certificate issued October 1, 2026, expires October 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 17, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17271827 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5301E according to the deregistered file. [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 N5301E: Accident on October 29, 1999 at Pineville, LA: minor 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 172M · operated under 091
The student pilot's misjudgment of distance/speed during approach resulting in his failure to attain the proper touchdown point.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW00LA021 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data