{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1975-04-01","airworthiness_ops":"Normal; Utility","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2024-03-19","city":"PEARLAND","country_code":"US","county_code":"039","cruise_speed_mph":108,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41508","engine_horsepower":180,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"0-320 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2031-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-03-19","maker":"Cessna","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CESSNA","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2072418","mode_s_code":"52067716","mode_s_hex":"A86FCE","model":"172M","n_number":"N64255","name":"GULF COAST HELICOPTERS INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Sanford","damage":"SUBS","date":"2003-10-16","highest_injury":"MINR","ntsb_no":"ATL04LA018","probable_cause":"The student pilot's failure to maintain directional control on landing roll resulting in a collision with a ditch, and subsequent nose over.","registration":"N64255","state":"NC","summary":"Accident on October 16, 2003 at Sanford, NC: minor injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N64255 is a Cessna 172M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. 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 March 19, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 1, 1975.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Gulf Coast Helicopters INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 19, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17265128 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N64255 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Hawker Beechcraft Corp B300 (serial FL-635, cancelled December 8, 2009); Cessna UC-78B (serial 5646, cancelled date not given). 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 N64255: Accident on October 16, 2003 at Sanford, NC: minor 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":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":4,"serial_number":"17265128","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1623 COUNTY ROAD 130","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Four-cycle piston","type_engine_code":"8","unique_id":"00262256","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N64255","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"775818233"}