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N5059C

Cessna 172R

Valid Illinois

N5059C is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Lewis University, a corporation in Romeoville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 24, 2007 and expires on October 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172R
Serial number
17281122
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A65019 (octal 51450031)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 24, 2007
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00004959

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lewis University
Type
Corporation
Address
1 University Pkwy
Romeoville, IL 60446-2200

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 2

2000-05-16Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm BO-105S · exported to Germany · Valid registration
—Skybirds Sales Inc TIERRA II · N-number assigned but not yet registered

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