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N491WS

Cessna 172S

Valid Delaware

N491WS is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Dhs Operations LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2013 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 17, 1999.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172S
Serial number
172S8305
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1999
Transponder code
A615D4 (octal 51412724)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 28, 2013
Expires
February 28, 2029
Last FAA action
July 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · November 17, 1999
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00115962

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Dhs Operations LLC
Type
LLC
Address
251 Little Falls Dr
Wilmington, DE 19808-1674

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