Textron Aviation Inc 172S
N545Q is a Textron Aviation Inc 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Catching Freedom LLC, an LLC in Bozeman, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 3, 2026 and expires on September 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 25, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S12371
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A6EBDD (octal 51565735)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 3, 2026
- Expires
- September 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- September 3, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 25, 2019
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01288590
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Catching Freedom LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3701 Trakker Tri
Bozeman, MT 59718
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N545Q, 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 Catching Freedom LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 3, 2026, expires September 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S12371 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N545Q 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N545Q. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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