Cessna 172S
N647SP is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Elizabeth City State University, a government body in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 21, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 16, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S8054
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A880DA (octal 52100332)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 21, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 21, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 16, 1998
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00313726
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elizabeth City State University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 1704 Weeksville Rd
Elizabeth City, NC 27909-7977
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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 N647SP, 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 Elizabeth City State University, a government body, certificate issued June 21, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 16, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8054 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N647SP 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 N647SP: Accident on August 18, 2013 at Middletown, DE: 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 improper recovery from a bounced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA13CA384 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data