Cessna 172M
N63SA is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1973. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sky View Aviation LLC, an LLC in Lenoir, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 6, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 14, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17261610
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A83CF4 (octal 52036364)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 6, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 6, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 14, 1973
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00394400
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sky View Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1169 Bradford Mountain Rd
Lenoir, NC 28645-8190
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 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N63SA, 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 Sky View Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 6, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 14, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17261610 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N63SA was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Champion 7KCAB (serial 124, cancelled February 25, 2013); Cessna T303 (serial T30300182, cancelled March 3, 1999); Swearingen SA226TC (serial TC222, cancelled July 9, 1993). 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]
1 NTSB record under N63SA: Accident on October 16, 1982 at Palm Springs, CA: minor 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: Swearingen SA-226TC · operated under 135
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX83FA002 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