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Cessna 402B
N72053 is a Cessna 402B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 10 seats. It is registered to South Aircraft Leasing INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 9, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 16, 1974. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Where is it now Last seen October 11 at 5:33 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 402B · all 402Bs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 402 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 402B-0587
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Cont Motor TSIO-520 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 198 mph
- Transponder code
- A9A6AF (octal 52323257)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 9, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 16, 1974
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00114041
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- South Aircraft Leasing INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 251 Little Falls Dr
Wilmington, DE 19808-1674
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N72053 links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 402 174 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental TSIO-520 series 4,113 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- South Aircraft Leasing INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
- Wilmington, DE 7,375 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,965 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 402 43 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 402 2,252 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 402 192 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental TSIO-520 series 36 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental TSIO-520 series 412 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Piston, eroded · 2015-03-14
- Where N72053 is now · Last seen October 11 at 5:33 pm.
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The public federal record on N72053, 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 South Aircraft Leasing INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 9, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 16, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 402B-0587 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N72053 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Luscombe 8A (serial 3480, cancelled October 14, 1949). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 20, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N72053: Accident on September 24, 1984 at Titusville, PA: no injuries, destroyed. 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: Beech 58F · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data