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N9559D

Cessna 172R

Valid Delaware

N9559D 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 Christiansen Aviation LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 22, 2022 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 30, 1999.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172R · all 172Rs and related versions
Serial number
17280488
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1999
Transponder code
AD4AD1 (octal 53245321)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 22, 2022
Expires
August 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 25, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · March 30, 1999
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00153797

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Christiansen Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
Mailboxes Etc #1710
2207 Concord Pike
Wilmington, DE 19803

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1961-09-27Piper PA-22-160 · exported to Germany · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N9559D, 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 Christiansen Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 22, 2022, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

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

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17280488 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9559D was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22-160 (serial 22-6476, cancelled September 27, 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N9559D: Accident on July 12, 2020 at Concord, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

WPR20CA219Accident on July 12, 2020 at Concord, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091

The student pilot's failure to maintain airplane control when the airplane drifted off of runway centerline and subsequently collided with a taxiway sign during a go-around.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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