Cessna 172S
N103KS is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Kent State University, a government body in Stow, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 7, 2006 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 5, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S10093
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A010CB (octal 50010313)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 7, 2006
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · January 5, 2006
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00219509
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kent State University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 4020 Kent Rd
Stow, OH 44224-4200
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.
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The public federal record on N103KS, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Kent State University, a government body, certificate issued February 7, 2006, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 5, 2006, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S10093 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N103KS according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N103KS: Accident on March 7, 2018 at Kent, OH: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
A deer collided with aircraft during landing at night.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA18CA150 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data