Cessna 172
N5896A 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 Fox Black Enterprises INC, a corporation in Kilmarnock, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 1997 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 10, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172 · all 172s and related versions
- Serial number
- 28496
- 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
- A79A82 (octal 51715202)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 25, 1997
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 10, 1956
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00561865
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fox Black Enterprises INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 1846
Kilmarnock, VA 22482-1846
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N5896A, 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 Fox Black Enterprises INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 25, 1997, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated March 10, 1956, consistent with the 1956 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 28496 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5896A 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 N5896A. 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