{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2001-11-20","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2014-11-06","city":"PEARLAND","country_code":"US","county_code":"201","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":"2027-11-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-04-01","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2072439","mode_s_code":"51462075","mode_s_hex":"A6643D","model":"172S","n_number":"N5103N","name":"GULF COAST HELICOPTERS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N5103N is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Gulf Coast Helicopters INC, a corporation in Pearland, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 6, 2014 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 20, 2001.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Gulf Coast Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 6, 2014, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 20, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8981 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N5103N was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Steinhagen Bruce H RANS S-6ES (serial 0492288, cancelled November 16, 1998); Cessna 182Q (serial 18267517, cancelled December 5, 1988). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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":"No NTSB investigation records located under N5103N. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":4,"serial_number":"172S8981","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 1167","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00203967","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N5103N","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2001,"zip":"775881167"}