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N5261U

Cessna 172RG

Valid Virginia

N5261U is a Cessna 172RG, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Chesapeake, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 6, 2011 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 12, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172RG
Serial number
172RG0308
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1980
Transponder code
A6A1C6 (octal 51520706)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 6, 2011
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · February 12, 1980
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00742495

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Backus Gary Carl
Type
Individual
Address
5192 W Military Hwy
Chesapeake, VA 23321-1109

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

1964-10-28Cessna 206 · exported to Zimbabwe · Valid registration

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