Cessna 172G
N5943R is a Cessna 172G, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Gear Down Hangar LLC, an LLC in Phoenix, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 21, 2017 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 29, 1965.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172G · all 172Gs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 172 Skyhawk family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 17253612
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A7AF14 (octal 51727424)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 21, 2017
- Expires
- December 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- November 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 29, 1965
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00651975
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gear Down Hangar LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2030 W Baseline Rd Ste 182-512
Phoenix, AZ 85041
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N5943R links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,687 registered
- Cessna 72,682 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental O-300 series 6,625 aircraft with this engine series · 145 hp
- Gear Down Hangar LLC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Phoenix, AZ 997 aircraft registered in this town
- Mesa Gateway Airport · IWA
- Phoenix Deer Valley Airport · DVT
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International · PHX
- Arizona 8,431 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 4,222 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 857 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental O-300 series 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental O-300 series 38 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N5943R, 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 Gear Down Hangar LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 21, 2017, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 29, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17253612 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5943R 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 N5943R. 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 November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data