Cessna 172S
N5338N 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 Raritan Valley Flying School, a corporation in Princeton, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 27, 2012 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 9, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S9358
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A6BF0F (octal 51537417)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 27, 2012
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 9, 2003
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00043089
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Raritan Valley Flying School
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 41 Airpark Rd
Princeton, NJ 08540-1500
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 N5338N, 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 Raritan Valley Flying School, a corporation, certificate issued March 27, 2012, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 9, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9358 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5338N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech C18S (serial 7089, cancelled February 27, 1997). 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 N5338N: Accident on February 23, 2019 at Princeton, NJ: 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 172 · operated under 091
A collision with deer on the runway while landing at night and the airport's lack of a complete perimeter fence.
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 September 30, 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