Cessna 172N
N5550J is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Optima Aviation LLC DBA, an LLC in Lewisville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 28, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 7, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17273818
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A7145F (octal 51612137)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 28, 2020
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 7, 1980
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00770166
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Optima Aviation LLC DBA
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 126 W Church St
Lewisville, TX 75057-3928 - Co-owners
- N5550J
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
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The public federal record on N5550J, 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 Optima Aviation LLC DBA, an LLC, certificate issued August 28, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 7, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17273818 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5550J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-32-260 (serial 32-1012, cancelled November 23, 1973). 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 N5550J: Accident on May 17, 2023 at Flower Mound, TX: 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: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
The fatigue failure of the rocker arm which resulted in a partial loss of engine power. Contributing was the airplane operator’s failure to inspect the rocker arm in accordance with the engine manufacturer’s service bulletin.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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