Textron Aviation Inc 172S
N858AU is a Textron Aviation Inc 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2018. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Ab Prop Plane II LLC, an LLC in Metairie, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 21, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 25, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S12149
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- ABC523 (octal 52742443)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 21, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 21, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 25, 2018
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01267671
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ab Prop Plane II LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3838 N Causeway Blvd Ste 3335
Metairie, LA 70002-8361
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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 N858AU, 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 Ab Prop Plane II LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 21, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 25, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S12149 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N858AU 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 N858AU: Accident on October 27, 2022 at Tuskegee, AL: minor 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Textron Aviation INC 172S · operated under 091
The flight instructor’s improper flare, which resulted in a hard landing and subsequent runway excursion.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA23LA159 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data