Cessna 172
N5876A is a Cessna 172, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Santa Monica, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 12, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 26, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172 · all 172s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28476
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A79314 (octal 51711424)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 12, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 12, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 26, 1956
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00531805
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thomas Christopher D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 601 9Th St Apt C
Santa Monica, CA 90402-2834
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N5876A, 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 Thomas Christopher D, an individual, certificate issued June 12, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated March 26, 1956, consistent with the 1956 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28476 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5876A 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5876A. 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 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