{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2006-11-28","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2007-09-18","city":"MARIETTA","country_code":"US","county_code":"067","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41597","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-360-L2A","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-04-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-05-05","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2072439","mode_s_code":"50041143","mode_s_hex":"A04263","model":"172S","n_number":"N1159K","name":"CAVU AERO LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Kennesaw","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-01-29","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA25LA118","probable_cause":"The student pilot\u2019s failure to maintain an appropriate glide path and the flight instructor\u2019s inadequate monitoring of the landing approach, which resulted in the airplane contacting the ground short of the runway.","registration":"N1159K","state":"GA","summary":"Accident on January 29, 2025 at Kennesaw, GA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N1159K is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Cavu Aero LLC, an LLC in Marietta, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 18, 2007 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 28, 2006.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Cavu Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 18, 2007, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 28, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S10357 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N1159K according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N1159K: Accident on January 29, 2025 at Kennesaw, GA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"172S10357","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"GA","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"552 WOODVALLEY DR","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00290209","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N1159K","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2006,"zip":"30064"}