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N858SC

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.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172M · all 172Ms and related versions
Serial number
17265779
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-E2D · 150 hp
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
108 mph
Transponder code
ABC6A3 (octal 52743243)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 23, 2022
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
Airworthiness
Restricted · Aerial advertising · March 23, 2016
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00214110

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Nightscape Aerial Advertising LLC
Type
LLC
Address
PO Box 722996
San Diego, CA 92172-2996

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 · 4 clear

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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Nightscape Aerial Advertising LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 23, 2022, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Restricted certificate for aerial advertising; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17265779 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N858SC 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 N858SC. 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