Cessna 172S
N9520Z is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2013. It has 4 seats. It is registered to K2 Aviation LLC, an LLC in Greenwood Village, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2024 and expires on December 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 6, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S11278
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- AD3E85 (octal 53237205)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 17, 2024
- Expires
- December 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 24, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · June 6, 2013
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01125822
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- K2 Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 6635 S Dayton St Ste 310 # 457
Greenwood Village, CO 80111-6156
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9520Z, 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 K2 Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 17, 2024, expires December 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated June 6, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S11278 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9520Z was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech C-45H (serial 51-11473, cancelled September 25, 1962). 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]
1 NTSB record under N9520Z: Accident on January 24, 2018 at Mckinney, TX: 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 172 · operated under 091
The student pilot’s improper approach and landing flare, which resulted in a porpoised landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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