Cessna 172P
N54576 is a Cessna 172P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Rick Aviation INC, a corporation in Newport News, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 3, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for forest, dated January 3, 1986.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17275003
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A6EDEB (octal 51566753)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 3, 2022
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Forest · January 3, 1986
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00013195
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rick Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 902 Bland Blvd Ste D
Newport News, VA 23602-4506
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N54576, 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 Rick Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 3, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for forest; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17275003 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N54576 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna T-50 (serial 3838, cancelled February 23, 1954). 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]
3 NTSB records under N54576: Accident on December 20, 2025 at Browns Corner, VA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 2, 2001 at Stevensville, MD: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 19, 1982 at Morristown, NJ: 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 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172P · operated under 091
On December 20, 2025, at 1415 eastern standard time, a Cessna 172P airplane, N54576, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Quinton, Virginia. The private pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot was operating out of New Kent County Airport (W96) Quinton, Virginia and reported that the preflight inspection, engine run-up, and taxi were normal. He performed several touch-and-go landings that were uneventful. Shortly after takeoff, as the airplane was climbing through 500 ft above gro…
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA26LA073 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172P · operated under 091
The pilot's improper flare and his improper recovery from a bounced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC01LA163 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC82DA074 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