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N54003

Cessna 172P

N54003 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 Albuquerque Aviation Academy, a government body in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 9, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 30, 1981.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172P · all 172Ps and related versions
Serial number
17274838
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1981
Transponder code
A6DA60 (octal 51555140)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 9, 2025
Expires
August 31, 2032
Last FAA action
August 9, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · March 30, 1981
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00523015

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Albuquerque Aviation Academy
Type
Government
Address
6441 Ventana Rd NW
Albuquerque, NM 87114-6488

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

1974-07-03Piper PA-23-250 (6PCLM) · exported to Belgium · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N54003, 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 Albuquerque Aviation Academy, a government body, certificate issued August 9, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 30, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17274838 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N54003 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-250 (6PCLM) (serial 27-7405353, cancelled July 3, 1974). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N54003: Accident on July 4, 1993 at Lancaster, TX: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

FTW93LA205Accident on July 4, 1993 at Lancaster, TX: minor injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172P · operated under 091

FUEL EXHAUSTION ENGINE POWER LOSS DUE TO THE INADEQUATE FUEL SUPPLY FOR THE FLIGHT. A FACTOR WAS THE LACK OF SUITABLE TERRAIN FOR THE FORCED LANDING

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW93LA205 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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