Cessna 172RG
N9551B is a Cessna 172RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 2021 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 7, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172RG · all 172RGs and related versions
- Serial number
- 172RG0873
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AD49B7 (octal 53244667)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 8, 2021
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 7, 1981
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00714550
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lopes Gaston A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 703365
Dallas, TX 75370-3365
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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N9551B, 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 Lopes Gaston A, an individual, certificate issued November 8, 2021, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172RG0873 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9551B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 180A (serial 32848, cancelled May 13, 1957). 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]
2 NTSB records under N9551B: Accident on July 12, 2007 at Roche Harbor, WA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 14, 2001 at Gig Harbor, WA: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172RG · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to perform the emergency landing gear extension procedure prior to landing. A contributing factor in the accident was the failure of the electrical system.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 RG · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to extend the airplane's landing gear while 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 September 30, 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