Cessna 172S
N642KM is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Nick Heir LLC, an LLC in Lexington, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 10, 2006 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 29, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S10053
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A86D96 (octal 52066626)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 10, 2006
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 28, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 29, 2005
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00214039
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nick Heir LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 333 Glendale Ave
Lexington, KY 40511-2123
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.
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The public federal record on N642KM, 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 Nick Heir LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 10, 2006, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 29, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S10053 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N642KM according to the deregistered file. [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 N642KM: Accident on May 14, 2006 at Louisville, KY: 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 student pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the takeoff roll.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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