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N8280B

Cessna 172

N8280B is a Cessna 172, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1957. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sea Coast Aviation LLC, an LLC in Conway, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 27, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 23, 1957.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172 · all 172s and related versions
Serial number
36080
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-300 SER · 145 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1957
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
AB50ED (octal 52650355)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 27, 2024
Expires
May 31, 2031
Last FAA action
May 27, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · July 23, 1957
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00533521

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sea Coast Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
4586 Long Branch Rd
Conway, SC 29526-5541

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N8280B, 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 Sea Coast Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 27, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated July 23, 1957, consistent with the 1957 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 36080 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8280B 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N8280B. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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