Textron Aviation Inc 172S
N685BB is a Textron Aviation Inc 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2023. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Heavenly Flight LLC, an LLC in Cumming, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 5, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 23, 2023. 2 documents are on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership), loan release.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S12980
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- A915E5 (octal 52212745)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 5, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 23, 2023
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01381193
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heavenly Flight LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5055 Shadburn Rd
Cumming, GA 30041-3960
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Documents on file 2
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N685BB, 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 Heavenly Flight LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 5, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 23, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S12980 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N685BB according to the deregistered file. [2]
2 documents received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 1, 2026), Loan release (September 1, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N685BB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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