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N5218U

Cessna 172S

N5218U is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Wnc Aviation LLC, an LLC in Arden, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 21, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. 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
172S9133
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A69028 (octal 51510050)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 21, 2025
Expires
December 31, 2032
Last FAA action
December 21, 2025
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00000359

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wnc Aviation LLC
Type
LLC
Address
229 Airport Rd Ste 127
Arden, NC 28704-6402

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

1975-05-08Cessna 206 · Valid registration

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