Cessna 172S
N553RA is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2012. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Rich Aviation Services LLC, an LLC in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 10, 2012 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 23, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S11176
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A70C08 (octal 51606010)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 10, 2012
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · July 23, 2012
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01099081
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rich Aviation Services LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 221 Aviation Way Ste 100
Fort Worth, TX 76106-2752
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 N553RA, 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 Rich Aviation Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 10, 2012, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 23, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S11176 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N553RA 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 N553RA: Accident on March 20, 2003 at Mankato, MN: 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: Aero Commander 500-B · operated under 091
Fuel exhaustion due to the pilot's inadequate preflight and not verifying the airplane had been refueled.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI03LA087 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