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N53143

Cessna 172R

N53143 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 Delta State University, a government body in Cleveland, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 18, 2003 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 27, 2003.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172R · all 172Rs and related versions
Serial number
17281145
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2003
Transponder code
A6B724 (octal 51533444)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 18, 2003
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · January 27, 2003
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00029829

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Delta State University
Type
Government
Address
PO Box 3203
Cleveland, MS 38733

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

1981-10-15Boeing A75N1 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N53143, 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 Delta State University, a government body, certificate issued March 18, 2003, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 27, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17281145 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N53143 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing A75N1 (serial 754579, cancelled October 15, 1981). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N53143. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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