Cessna 172S
N551ER is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sunrise Aviation INC, a corporation in Ormond Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 11, 2014 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 19, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S10548
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A70396 (octal 51601626)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 11, 2014
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · June 19, 2007
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00356829
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sunrise Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 740 Airport Rd
Ormond Beach, FL 32174-8755
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 N551ER, 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 Sunrise Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 11, 2014, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated June 19, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S10548 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N551ER 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 N551ER: Incident on October 15, 2011 at Daytona Beach, FL: no injuries. 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 172S · operated under 091
The departing pilot's incorrect runway selection and non-compliance with an air traffic control clearance. Contributing to the incident was the air traffic controller's inadequate monitoring of the departing aircraft to ensure that the pilot complied with the clearance issued and his failure to issue conflict resolution advisories.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for OPS12IA041 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data