Cessna 172S
N55231 is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2014. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Golf November Aero LLC, an LLC in Sunnyvale, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 10, 2017 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 14, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S11414
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A709B4 (octal 51604664)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 10, 2017
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 14, 2014
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01138819
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Golf November Aero LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 969 Leighton Way
Sunnyvale, CA 94087-4912
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N55231, 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 Golf November Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 10, 2017, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 14, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S11414 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N55231 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell H-13 (serial 5114024, cancelled February 19, 1981); Fairchild M-62A (serial T42-1694, cancelled April 8, 1955). 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]
2 NTSB records under N55231: Accident on June 11, 2026 at Morgan Hill, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 2, 2020 at San Jose, CA: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172S · operated under 091
An in-flight collision with a bird.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR26LA220 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
The airplane’s collision with a bird while maneuvering in the airport traffic pattern.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR20LA256 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