Cessna 172P
N54452 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 an individual in Mechanicsville, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 4, 2022 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 13, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17274977
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A6E9EA (octal 51564752)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 4, 2022
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 13, 1981
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00633175
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Epling Kenny B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5065 Lovings Trl
Mechanicsville, VA 23111-6946
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 N54452, 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 Epling Kenny B, an individual, certificate issued October 4, 2022, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 13, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17274977 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N54452 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas DC3C-S1C3G (serial 20037, cancelled May 12, 1947). 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]
2 NTSB records under N54452: Accident on August 29, 1987 at Wheeling, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 7, 1985 at Ann Arbor, MI: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172P · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI87LA199 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172P · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI85LA371 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