Cessna 172N
N5385J is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Aerowood Aviation LLC, an LLC in Monroe, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 29, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 29, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17273775
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A6D135 (octal 51550465)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 29, 2020
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · January 29, 1980
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00072945
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aerowood Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3900 Paul J Helms Dr
Monroe, NC 28110-9382
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 N5385J, 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 Aerowood Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 29, 2020, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 29, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17273775 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5385J 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 N5385J: Accident on October 12, 2001 at Perkasie, PA: 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 improper flare, which resulted in a hard landing. A factor was the sun glare.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for IAD02LA004 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