Cessna 172S
N53587 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 Chapel Hill Flying Club INC DBA, a corporation in Sanford, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 12, 2011 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 23, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S9407
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A6C690 (octal 51543220)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 12, 2011
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · June 23, 2003
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00054469
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chapel Hill Flying Club INC DBA
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 702 Rod Sullivan Rd
Sanford, NC 27330-9283 - Co-owners
- Wings Of Carolina Flying Club
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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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N53587, 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 Chapel Hill Flying Club INC DBA, a corporation, certificate issued August 12, 2011, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated June 23, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9407 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N53587 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 337G (serial 33701725, cancelled July 30, 1998); Fairchild M-62A (serial T41-1008, cancelled October 23, 1951). 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 N53587: Accident on November 27, 2020 at Sanford, NC: 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
The pilot's loss of directional control during takeoff in crosswind conditions, which resulted in a runway excursion and impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA21LA057 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
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