Cessna 172S
N860SA is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Saint Clair Flight Academy INC, a corporation in Richmond, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 11, 2012 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 31, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S8860
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- ABD068 (octal 52750150)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 11, 2012
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 31, 2001
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00683804
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Saint Clair Flight Academy INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 72
Richmond, MI 48062-0072
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 N860SA, 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 Saint Clair Flight Academy INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 11, 2012, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 31, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8860 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N860SA 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 N860SA: Accident on May 21, 2005 at Port Huron, MI: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172S · operated under 091
The pilot not performing a go-around and misjudging the flare leading to a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI05CA124 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