Cessna 172S
N1097N 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 Longford Aviation INC, a corporation in West Chester, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 28, 2007 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 24, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S9821
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A0297D (octal 50024575)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 28, 2007
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 24, 2005
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00181729
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Longford Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 5140 Braden Ln
West Chester, OH 45069-6646
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N1097N, 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 Longford Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 28, 2007, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 24, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9821 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1097N was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hughes 269C (serial 600934, cancelled June 17, 2002). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N1097N: Accident on December 4, 2000 at Carlsbad, CA: 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: Hughes 269C · operated under 091
The CFI's inadequate supervision and failure to maintain control of the helicopter during a practice autorotation. A contributing factor was the student's improper in-flight planning/decision.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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