Cessna 172S
N979WD is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Dolphin Leasing LLC, an LLC in Daytona Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 21, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S10077
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- ADA70C (octal 53323414)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 12, 2007
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 21, 2005
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00217619
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dolphin Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 561 Pearl Harbor Dr
Daytona Beach, FL 32114-3845
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N979WD, 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 Dolphin Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 12, 2007, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 21, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S10077 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N979WD according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N979WD. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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