Cessna P172D
N8540X is a Cessna P172D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1963. It has 4 seats. It is registered to N8540X LLC, an LLC in Prescott, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 8, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 26, 1970.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- P172D · all P172Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- P17257140
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor GO-300 SERIES · 175 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1963
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- ABB8A2 (octal 52734242)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 8, 2023
- Expires
- August 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 8, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 26, 1970
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00452731
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- N8540X LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 5533 Whirlwind Cir
Prescott, AZ 86305-3812
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N8540X, 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 N8540X LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 8, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 26, 1970, 7 years after the 1963 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial P17257140 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8540X 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]
2 NTSB records under N8540X: Accident on May 22, 2022 at Prescott, AZ: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 16, 1983 at Wasco, OR: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna P172D · operated under 091
The loss of engine power for reasons that could not be determined based on the available evidence.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR22LA186 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172-I · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA83LA098 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