Cessna 172P
N54120 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 Carastro Enterprises LLC, an LLC in Montgomery, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 2, 2014 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 10, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17274884
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A6DE5A (octal 51557132)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 2, 2014
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 10, 1981
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00283045
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Carastro Enterprises LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3060 Lansdowne Dr
Montgomery, AL 36111-1819
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 N54120, 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 Carastro Enterprises LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 2, 2014, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 10, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17274884 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N54120 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-250 (serial 27-7405427, cancelled July 23, 1974). 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 N54120: Incident on June 19, 2011 at Gulfport, MS: no injuries. 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 172P · operated under 091
the Gulfport control tower local controller cleared two aircraft for takeoff from runways with intersecting departure flight paths without ensuring the first aircraft had passed the flight path intersection prior to clearing the second aircraft for takeoff.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for OPS11IA673 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