Cessna 172N
N5546J is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 18, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; aerial surveying, dated July 15, 1987.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17273816
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A7117A (octal 51610572)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 18, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Aerial surveying · July 15, 1987
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00793525
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Richardson Gerald R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9785 Mccutcheon Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15237-4337
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 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N5546J, 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 Richardson Gerald R, an individual, certificate issued January 18, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Multiple certificate for standard; restricted; aerial surveying; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17273816 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5546J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-32-260 (serial 321008, cancelled April 23, 1974). 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 N5546J. 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 September 30, 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