Cessna 172S
N6048Z is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wilmington, Delaware. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 21, 2006. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S10217
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A7D9A3 (octal 51754643)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pending
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- June 20, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · June 21, 2006
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00260339
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5305 Limestone Rd Ste 200
Wilmington, DE 19808-1247
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
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 4 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N6048Z, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated June 21, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S10217 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6048Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-25-150 (serial 25-55, cancelled September 12, 1975). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 22, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N6048Z: Accident on October 6, 2008 at Compton, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172S · operated under 091
The pilot's improper flare and inadequate recovery from a bounced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR09CA273 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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