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N764SP

Cessna 172S

N764SP is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Colonial Air INC, a corporation in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 8, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 8, 2001.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172S · all 172Ss and related versions
Serial number
172S8697
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2001
Transponder code
AA5202 (octal 52451002)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 8, 2007
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 30, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · January 8, 2001
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00343745

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Colonial Air INC
Type
Corporation
Address
1605 Airport Rd
New Bedford, MA 02746-1368

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N764SP, 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 Colonial Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 8, 2007, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 8, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8697 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N764SP according to the deregistered file. [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 N764SP: Accident on August 21, 2001 at Gadsden, AL: 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

MIA01LA227Accident on August 21, 2001 at Gadsden, AL: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 17258697

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172S · operated under 091

the pilot misjudged the flare, resulting in a hard landing, and impact with the runway.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA01LA227 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