Cessna 172M
N858SC is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Nightscape Aerial Advertising LLC, an LLC in San Diego, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 23, 2022 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial advertising, dated March 23, 2016.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172M · all 172Ms and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 172 Skyhawk family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 17265779
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-E2D · 150 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- ABC6A3 (octal 52743243)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 23, 2022
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Aerial advertisingFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 23, 2016
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00214110
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nightscape Aerial Advertising LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 722996
San Diego, CA 92172-2996
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N858SC links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,687 registered
- Cessna 72,682 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-320-E2D 258 aircraft with this engine series · 150 hp
- Nightscape Aerial Advertising LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- San Diego, CA 713 aircraft registered in this town
- Brown Field Municipal · SDM
- Montgomery-Gibbs Executive · MYF
- San Diego International · SAN
- California 27,897 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 4,220 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 857 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320-E2D 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320-E2D 494 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N858SC.json.
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The public federal record on N858SC, 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 Nightscape Aerial Advertising LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 23, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for aerial advertising; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17265779 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N858SC 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N858SC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data