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N9550S

Cessna 172R

Valid Tennessee

N9550S is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Bald Eagle Enterprises INC, a corporation in Nashville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 18, 2016 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 30, 1999.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172R · all 172Rs and related versions
Serial number
17280758
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0-360-B1E · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1999
Transponder code
AD49A3 (octal 53244643)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 18, 2016
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · August 30, 1999
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00275912

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bald Eagle Enterprises INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 90659
Nashville, TN 37209-0659

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

1965-08-20Champion 7ECA · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N9550S, 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 Bald Eagle Enterprises INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 18, 2016, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 30, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17280758 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9550S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Champion 7ECA (serial 339, cancelled August 20, 1965). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N9550S. 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