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N107BA

Cessna 172N

N107BA is a Cessna 172N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Fairmont State University, a government body in Fairmont, West Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
172N · all 172Ns and related versions
Serial number
17269320
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A01ECF (octal 50017317)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 23, 2019
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00182167

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Fairmont State University
Type
Government
Address
1201 Locust Ave
Fairmont, WV 26554-2451

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

2013-09-27Beech 65-B80 · First notice for re-registration or renewal

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N107BA, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Fairmont State University, a government body, certificate issued July 23, 2019, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17269320 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N107BA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 65-B80 (serial LD-358, cancelled September 27, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N107BA: Accident on February 8, 2001 at Sioux Falls, SD: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

CHI01LA082Accident on February 8, 2001 at Sioux Falls, SD: serious injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: LD-358

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 65-B80 · operated under 135

The pilot initiated the flight into known icing conditions which resulted in his ability to maintain control of the airplane. Factors associated with the accident were the ice accumulation and the company induced pressure for the pilot to make the flight into the adverse weather conditions.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI01LA082 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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