Cessna 172S
N55294 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 Heavy Metal Air LLC, an LLC in Farmingdale, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 7, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 10, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S11516
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A70A89 (octal 51605211)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 7, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- November 5, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 10, 2014
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01160486
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heavy Metal Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7150 Republic Airport Ste 101
Farmingdale, NY 11735-3999
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N55294, 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 Heavy Metal Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 7, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 10, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S11516 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N55294 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-32-300 (serial 327340109, cancelled October 17, 1989); Boeing A75N1 (serial 75-2320, cancelled October 11, 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N55294. 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