Cessna 172P
N55350 is a Cessna 172P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Haps Air INC, a corporation in Ames, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 24, 2005 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 1, 2019.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 172 Skyhawk family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 17275164
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-D2J · 160 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- A70DB0 (octal 51606660)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 24, 2005
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 1, 2019
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00653515
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Haps Air INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2508 Airport Dr
Ames, IA 50010-8260
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
Connections how N55350 links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,693 registered
- Cessna 72,678 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-320-D2J 96 aircraft with this engine series · 160 hp
- Haps Air INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Ames, IA 58 aircraft registered in this town
- Ames Municipal · AMW
- Iowa 4,513 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 4,222 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 857 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320-D2J 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320-D2J 291 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N55350, 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 Haps Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 24, 2005, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 1, 2019, 37 years after the 1982 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17275164 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N55350 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-36-285 (serial 36-7360008, cancelled July 3, 1973); Boeing PT-17 (serial 75-2020, cancelled April 24, 1951). 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 N55350: Accident on October 16, 1984 at Stillwater, OK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 24, 1984 at Stillwater, OK: 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 172P · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172P · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data