Cessna 172P
N54956 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 Sunset, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 22, 1999 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 24, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17275090
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A6FC81 (octal 51576201)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 22, 1999
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · June 24, 1981
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00353335
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fluke Dennis M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3109 Jim Harry Loop
Sunset, TX 76270-6678
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.
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The public federal record on N54956, 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 Fluke Dennis M, an individual, certificate issued September 22, 1999, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated June 24, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17275090 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N54956 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 N54956: Accident on March 9, 1992 at Harrison, AR: minor 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 172P · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO ATTAIN THE PROPER TOUCHDOWN POINT, AND HIS FAILURE TO MAINTAIN THE PROPER DESCENT RATE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW92LA086 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