Cessna 172N
N6552F is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Air Planes LLC, an LLC in Soddy Daisy, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 12, 2016 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 14, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172N · all 172Ns and related versions
- Serial number
- 17273239
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A8A1F1 (octal 52120761)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 12, 2016
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 14, 1979
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00022706
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Planes LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1089 Harbor Point Dr
Soddy Daisy, TN 37379-5748
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N6552F, 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 Air Planes LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 12, 2016, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 14, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17273239 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6552F was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150F (serial 15063152, cancelled November 15, 1972). 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 N6552F: Accident on September 10, 1989 at Key West, FL: 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 172N · operated under 091
INADEQUATE VISUAL LOOKOUT BY THE WACO PILOT, WHICH RESULTED IN HIS MISJUDGEMENT OF CLEARANCE BETWEEN HIS AIRCRAFT AND THE CESSNA 172 AND A SUBSEQUENT COLLISION.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA89LA245 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