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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of September 25, 2026
N478CA

Textron Aviation Inc 172S

Valid Kansas

N478CA is a Textron Aviation Inc 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Wingsleasing LLC, an LLC in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 1, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Textron Aviation Inc
Model
172S
Serial number
172S11740
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A5DF05 (octal 51357405)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 1, 2024
Expires
July 31, 2031
Last FAA action
July 1, 2024
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01224424

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wingsleasing LLC
Type
LLC
Address
250 N Water St Ste 300
Wichita, KS 67202-1216

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.

Earlier use of this number 1

2009-11-12Bombardier Inc CL-600-2B19 · exported to Bermuda · Valid registration

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