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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 402B · all 402Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 402B-0587
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 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 registration
- Certificate issued
- September 9, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 16, 1974
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00114041
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- South Aircraft Leasing INC
- Type
- Corporation
- 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 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 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]
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 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
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC84LA321 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