Cessna 172S
N996SA is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Ep Aero LLC, an LLC in Parkton, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2008 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 13, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S9096
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- ADEA7E (octal 53365176)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 2008
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · June 13, 2002
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00253986
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ep Aero LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 101 Wind Tree Valley Rd
Parkton, MD 21120-9252
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N996SA, 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 Ep Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 24, 2008, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated June 13, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9096 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N996SA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dehavilland DHC-6 TWIN OTTER (serial 159, cancelled June 16, 1993). 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]
1 NTSB record under N996SA: Accident on January 20, 1988 at Charlotte, NC: serious 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: De Havilland DHC-6-200 · operated under 091
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