Cessna 172S
N121CW is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Aerostar Training Services LLC, an LLC in Kissimmee, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 10, 2019 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 23, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S8975
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2001
- Transponder code
- A057B0 (octal 50053660)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 10, 2019
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 23, 2001
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00574084
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aerostar Training Services LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3954 Merlin Dr
Kissimmee, FL 34741-4506
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N121CW, 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 Aerostar Training Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 10, 2019, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 23, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8975 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N121CW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Watson Charles K KR2 (serial 001, cancelled August 27, 1996). 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]
4 NTSB records under N121CW: Accident on July 30, 2025 at Kissimmee, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 22, 2013 at New Smyrna Beach, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 18, 2005 at Show Low, AZ: 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 4
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172S · operated under 091
On July 30, 2025, at 11:28 eastern daylight time, a Cessna 172S, N121CW, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Kissimmee, Florida. The private pilot and flight instructor were uninjured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. According to the flight instructor, the purpose of the flight was to provide commercial instruction for the private pilot. The instructor reported that during the preflight, the airplane had sufficient fuel, and the engine had sufficient oil for the cross-country flight. The pilot stat…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172S · operated under 091
The student pilot's improper landing flare and subsequent inadequate recovery from a bounced landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172S · operated under 091
the pilot's selection of a downwind runway for landing and his inadequate compensation for the strong and gusty quartering tail wind conditions, which resulted in a tail strike during landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Watson KR-2 · operated under 091
Aircraft control not maintained by the pilot and the subsequent stall. A factor associated with the accident was the pilot's lack of recent flight experience.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data