{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2000-08-22","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2019-05-09","city":"GAITHERSBURG","country_code":"US","county_code":"031","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41515","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"I0360 SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2029-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-03-31","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2072439","mode_s_code":"51446613","mode_s_hex":"A64D8B","model":"172S","n_number":"N505LP","name":"WIFA (WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT ACADEMY) LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Gaithersburg","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-08-21","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA25LA311","probable_cause":"The flight instructor\u2019s distraction during landing, which resulted in a long landing and subsequent runway excursion.","registration":"N505LP","state":"MD","summary":"Accident on August 21, 2025 at Gaithersburg, MD: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"},{"city":"Culpeper","damage":"SUBS","date":"2020-12-22","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"ERA21LA092","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s decision to land the airplane in crosswind conditions that exceeded the airplane\u2019s maximum demonstrated crosswind velocity.","registration":"N505LP","state":"VA","summary":"Accident on December 22, 2020 at Culpeper, VA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N505LP is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Wifa (Washington International Flight Academy) LLC, an LLC in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 9, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 22, 2000.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Wifa (Washington International Flight Academy) LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 9, 2019, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 22, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8546 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N505LP 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":"2 NTSB records under N505LP: Accident on August 21, 2025 at Gaithersburg, MD: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on December 22, 2020 at Culpeper, VA: 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":4,"serial_number":"172S8546","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MD","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"7940 AIRPARK RD","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00835890","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N505LP","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2000,"zip":"208794176"}