Cessna 172S
N55296 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 16, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S11517
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2014
- Transponder code
- A70A8B (octal 51605213)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 7, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- November 5, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 16, 2014
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01160491
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heavy Metal Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7150 Republic Airport Ste 101
Farmingdale, NY 11735-3999
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N55296, 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 16, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S11517 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N55296 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-34-200 (serial 347350198, cancelled April 19, 1994). 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]
1 NTSB record under N55296: Accident on April 25, 1992 at Van Nuys, 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-34-200 · operated under 091
THE INADEQUATE INSPECTION OF THE AIRPLANE'S BRAKES SYSTEM BY MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL AND THE MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL NOT REPLACING BRAKE LININGS THAT WERE WORN BEYOND THEIR SERVICE LIMITS. THE RUNWAY LIGHTS AND FENCE THAT WERE IN THE AIRPLANE'S GROUND PATH AFTER IT DEPARTED THE RUNWAY WERE FACTORS IN THE ACCIDENT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX92LA187 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