Cessna 172I
N8359L is a Cessna 172I, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Bay Lux Ventures LLC, an LLC in Tampa, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172I · all 172Is and related versions
- Serial number
- 17256559
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AB6E8B (octal 52667213)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 8, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00053281
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bay Lux Ventures LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 401 N Ashley Dr # 173086
Tampa, FL 33602-4301
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.
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The public federal record on N8359L, 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 Bay Lux Ventures LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 28, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17256559 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8359L according to the deregistered file. [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 N8359L: Accident on February 26, 1989 at Fort Washington, MD: serious injuries. 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: Cessna 172I · operated under 091
THE PASSENGER FAILED TO MAINTAIN ADEQUATE CLEARANCE FROM THE PROPELLER AS SHE ATTEMPTED TO BOARD THE AIRCRAFT. BOTH THE PILOT FAILURE TO SUPERVISE THE BOARDING OF THE PASSENGER AND THE NIGHT LIGHT CONDITIONS ARE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS TO THE ACCIDENT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO89LA018 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