Cessna 172P
N63628 is a Cessna 172P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Black Hills Airplanes LLC, an LLC in Rapid City, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 28, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 2, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17275458
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A856C5 (octal 52053305)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 28, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 2, 1981
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00172036
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Black Hills Airplanes LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1912 W Main St Ste 3
Rapid City, SD 57702-2570
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 N63628, 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 Black Hills Airplanes LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 28, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 2, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17275458 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N63628 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Consolidated Vultee BT-13A (serial 2728, cancelled October 9, 1970). 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 N63628. 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