{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2014-12-16","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-10-07","city":"FARMINGDALE","country_code":"US","county_code":"059","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":"2031-10-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-11-05","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2072439","mode_s_code":"51605213","mode_s_hex":"A70A8B","model":"172S","n_number":"N55296","name":"HEAVY METAL AIR LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"VAN NUYS","damage":"SUBS","date":"1992-04-25","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX92LA187","probable_cause":"THE INADEQUATE INSPECTION OF THE AIRPLANE'S BRAKES SYSTEM BY MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL AND THE MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL NOT REPLACING BRAKE LININGS THAT WERE WORN BEYOND THEIR SERVICE LIMITS. THE RUNWAY LIGHTS AND FENCE THAT WERE IN THE AIRPLANE'S GROUND PATH AFTER IT DEPARTED THE RUNWAY WERE FACTORS IN THE ACCIDENT.","registration":"N55296","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on April 25, 1992 at Van Nuys, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N55296 is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2014. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Heavy Metal Air LLC, an LLC in Farmingdale, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 7, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 16, 2014.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Heavy Metal Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 7, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 16, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S11517 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N55296 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-34-200 (serial 347350198, cancelled April 19, 1994). 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":"1 NTSB record under N55296: Accident on April 25, 1992 at Van Nuys, CA: 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":"172S11517","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"NY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"7150 REPUBLIC AIRPORT STE 101","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01160491","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N55296","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2014,"zip":"117353999"}