Cessna 172S
N1166W is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Flight Operations Aircraft LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 29, 2012 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 4, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S10363
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A045BC (octal 50042674)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 29, 2012
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 4, 2006
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00290159
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Flight Operations Aircraft LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 251 Little Falls Dr
Wilmington, DE 19808-1674
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 N1166W, 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 Flight Operations Aircraft LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 29, 2012, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 4, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S10363 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1166W 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]
2 NTSB records under N1166W: Accident on July 24, 2010 at White Plains, NY: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 20, 1991 at Harwich, MA: minor 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
The student pilot's improper landing flare and the flight instructor's delayed remedial action resulting in a bounced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA10CA398 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 47-G3B1 · operated under 137
A FAILURE OF THE CLUTCH DURING TAKEOFF DUE TO IMPROPER MAINTENANCE PROCEDURES. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE INSUFFICIENT ALTITUDE TO ESTABLISH AN AUTOROTATION.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC91DNA02 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