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N65501

Cessna 172S

Valid Arizona

N65501 is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Right Rudder Arizona LLC, an LLC in Litchfield Park, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 28, 2004.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172S · all 172Ss and related versions
Serial number
172S9721
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2004
Transponder code
A8A1BF (octal 52120677)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 26, 2023
Expires
August 31, 2030
Last FAA action
August 26, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · October 28, 2004
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00140009

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Right Rudder Arizona LLC
Type
LLC
Address
13221 W Palo Verde Dr
Litchfield Park, AZ 85340-8356

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

1990-12-06Aerospatiale AS350L1 · exported to France · Valid registration
1989-10-03Boeing A75N1(PT17) · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N65501, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Right Rudder Arizona LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 26, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 28, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9721 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N65501 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Aerospatiale AS350L1 (serial 1799, cancelled December 6, 1990); Boeing A75N1(PT17) (serial 753132, cancelled October 3, 1989). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N65501: Accident on May 21, 1982 at Northwood, ND: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

DEN82DTG04Accident on May 21, 1982 at Northwood, ND: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 75-3132

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing A75N1 · operated under 137

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN82DTG04 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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