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N9553A

Cessna 172R

N9553A is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Titusville Aero Club INC, a corporation in Titusville, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 10, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 23, 1998.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172R · all 172Rs and related versions
Serial number
17280376
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1998
Transponder code
AD49FC (octal 53244774)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 10, 2021
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · April 23, 1998
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00947211

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Titusville Aero Club INC
Type
Corporation
Address
2572 Meadville Rd
Titusville, PA 16354-7083

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

1961-06-22Cessna 170A · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N9553A, 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 Titusville Aero Club INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 10, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 23, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17280376 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9553A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 170A (serial 19415, cancelled June 22, 1961). 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 N9553A. 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 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