Cessna 172S
N53070 is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Wnc Aviation LLC, an LLC in Arden, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 14, 2003 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 10, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S9325
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A6B3D3 (octal 51531723)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 14, 2003
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 10, 2003
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00037349
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wnc Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 229 Airport Rd Ste 7 # 127
Arden, NC 28704-6403
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 4
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N53070, 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 Wnc Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 14, 2003, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 10, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9325 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N53070 was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Bell 407 (serial 53078, cancelled June 5, 1997); Swearingen SA-26AT (serial T26155, cancelled February 28, 1992); Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR (serial 1804, cancelled June 2, 1949). 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]
2 NTSB records under N53070: Accident on September 26, 1983 at Houston, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 4, 1982 at Houston, TX: serious injuries. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 177RGII · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 177RG · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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