Cessna 172RG
N5424V is a Cessna 172RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sorbi Aviation INC, a corporation in El Cajon, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 15, 2015 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 2, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172RG · all 172RGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 172RG0528
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A6E252 (octal 51561122)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 15, 2015
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 2, 1980
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00943305
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sorbi Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2075 N Marshall Ave
El Cajon, CA 92020-1119
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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 N5424V, 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 Sorbi Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 15, 2015, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 2, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172RG0528 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5424V 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 N5424V: Accident on June 20, 2017 at El Cajon, CA: 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 172RG · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to extend the landing gear with sufficient time to allow the landing gear to fully extend and the flight instructor's failure to visually check to see if the right main landing gear were extended.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA17CA372 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data