Cessna 172S
N87JA is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 4 seats. It is registered to N87Ja Lk Aircraft Holdings LLC, an LLC in Wheeling, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 9, 2009 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 1, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S8012
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- ABF4C6 (octal 52772306)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 9, 2009
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 1, 1998
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00797221
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- N87Ja Lk Aircraft Holdings LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1098 S Milwaukee Ave Ste 102
Wheeling, IL 60090-6377
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N87JA, 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 N87Ja Lk Aircraft Holdings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 9, 2009, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 1, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8012 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N87JA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ashby John C ASHBY B8M (serial 5419, cancelled July 8, 1991). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N87JA. 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 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