Cessna 172S
N618DH is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2012. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Corsair Aviation LLC, an LLC in Pacoima, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 2, 2019 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 23, 2012.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Corsair Aviation, LLC, so it can be flown for hire.
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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
- 172S11186
- 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
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A80CC9 (octal 52006311)
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 2, 2019
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 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 · May 23, 2012
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01096312
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Corsair Aviation LLC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- 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
- 12653 Osborne St #28
Pacoima, CA 91331-2158
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
Connections how N618DH links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,693 registered
- Cessna 72,678 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Corsair Aviation, LLC · charter operator
- Lycoming IO-360-L2A 2,651 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Corsair Aviation LLC 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
- Pacoima, CA 54 aircraft registered in this town
- California 28,279 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 Lycoming IO-360-L2A 26 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360-L2A 994 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N618DH, 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 Corsair Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 2, 2019, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 23, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S11186 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N618DH was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hause David E ROTORWAY EXEC (serial 3664, cancelled March 27, 2003). 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 N618DH. 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 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 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 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data