Cessna R172K
N560SP is a Cessna R172K, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Protea Group Management Services LLC, an LLC in Carrollton, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 23, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- R172K · all R172Ks and related versions
- Serial number
- R1722359
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 76 mph
- Transponder code
- A72888 (octal 51624210)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 23, 2022
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00113320
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Protea Group Management Services LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2201 Midway Rd Ste 302
Carrollton, TX 75006-5183 - Co-owners
- International Aviation Support
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N560SP, 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 Protea Group Management Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 23, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial R1722359 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N560SP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172S (serial 172S8411, cancelled December 29, 2000). 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 N560SP: Accident on April 15, 2000 at Near Muskegon, MI: minor 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 172S · operated under 091
the pilot failed to maintain altitude after inadvertently flying to instrument meteorological conditions. Factors associated with the accident were the low ceilings and visibility, the pilot became disoriented after inadvertently flying into IMC, and the pilot was not instrument rated.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI00LA113 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