Cessna 172M
N64255 is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Gulf Coast Helicopters INC, a corporation in Pearland, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 19, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 1, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 17265128
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A86FCE (octal 52067716)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 19, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 19, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 1, 1975
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00262256
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gulf Coast Helicopters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1623 County Road 130
Pearland, TX 77581-8233
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N64255, 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 Gulf Coast Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 19, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17265128 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N64255 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Hawker Beechcraft Corp B300 (serial FL-635, cancelled December 8, 2009); Cessna UC-78B (serial 5646, cancelled date not given). 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 N64255: Accident on October 16, 2003 at Sanford, NC: 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: Cessna 172M · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control on landing roll resulting in a collision with a ditch, and subsequent nose over.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL04LA018 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