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N5096C

Cessna 172S

Valid Minnesota

N5096C is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Metro Aircraft CO, a corporation in Bloomington, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 27, 2002 and expires on August 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172S
Serial number
172S8974
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A65E8C (octal 51457214)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 27, 2002
Expires
August 31, 2029
Last FAA action
February 28, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00784017

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Metro Aircraft CO
Type
Corporation
Address
1600 W 82Nd St Ste 100
Bloomington, MN 55431-1411

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

1978-11-21Cessna 310R · exported to Australia · Valid registration
1954-04-13Beech B35 · Valid registration

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