Cessna 172RG
N590S is a Cessna 172RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Prospect Ridge Aviaton INC, a corporation in Morganton, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 24, 1997 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 24, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172RG · all 172RGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 172RG0818
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A79EF7 (octal 51717367)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 24, 1997
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 24, 1981
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00050181
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Prospect Ridge Aviaton INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3051 Port St
Morganton, NC 28655-9449
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 · 4 clear
The public federal record on N590S, 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 Prospect Ridge Aviaton INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 24, 1997, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 24, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172RG0818 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N590S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-25-235 (serial 25-2037, cancelled August 10, 1971). 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 N590S. 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