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N197TA

Cessna 172S

N197TA is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Coast Aviation LLC, an LLC in Costa Mesa, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 10, 2002.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172S
Serial number
172S9197
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2002
Transponder code
A183D6 (octal 50301726)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 28, 2022
Expires
March 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · October 10, 2002
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00006639

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Coast Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
467 Costa Mesa St
Costa Mesa, CA 92627-2320

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data