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N54569

Cessna 172P

N54569 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 Renton, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 11, 2014 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 22, 1981.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172P · all 172Ps and related versions
Serial number
17275002
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1981
Transponder code
A6EDCB (octal 51566713)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 11, 2014
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · May 22, 1981
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00123195

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Buehler Thomas M
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 2861
Renton, WA 98056-0861

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

1946-10-17Laister Kauffmann LK-10B · exported to Brazil · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N54569, 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 Buehler Thomas M, an individual, certificate issued August 11, 2014, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 22, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17275002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N54569 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Laister Kauffmann LK-10B (serial 106, cancelled October 17, 1946). 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 N54569: Accident on May 2, 1982 at Lisabuella, WA: no 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

SEA82DA062Accident on May 2, 1982 at Lisabuella, WA: no injuries, substantial damage.

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

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA82DA062 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