Cessna 172S
N596FA is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Ocala Aviation Services INC, a corporation in Ocala, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 11, 2005 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 16, 2004. 1 document is on file: loan release.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss 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
- 172S9596
- 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 · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A7B42F (octal 51732057)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 11, 2005
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 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 · February 16, 2004
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00087329
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ocala Aviation Services INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1200 SW 60Th Ave
Ocala, FL 34474-9300
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 1
Connections how N596FA links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,683 registered
- Cessna 72,685 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360-L2A 2,648 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Ocala Aviation Services INC 15 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
- Ocala, FL 410 aircraft registered in this town
- Ocala Intl-Jim Taylor Field · OCF
- Florida 21,698 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 4,220 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 857 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360-L2A 26 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360-L2A 993 reports since 1995
- Where N596FA is now · Last seen today at 9:15 am.
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The public federal record on N596FA, 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 Ocala Aviation Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 11, 2005, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 16, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9596 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N596FA according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Loan release (October 9, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N596FA. 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 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 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 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data