Cessna 172P
N538C is a Cessna 172P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Jav Air Services LLC, an LLC in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 26, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17274724
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A6CE57 (octal 51547127)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 22, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 26, 1981
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00062945
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jav Air Services LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 231049
Anchorage, AK 99523-1049
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N538C, 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 Jav Air Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 22, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 26, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17274724 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N538C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson 108-3 (serial 108-3538, cancelled December 12, 1956). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N538C. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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