Textron Aviation Inc 172S
N121WE is a Textron Aviation Inc 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Midwest Aviation INC, a corporation in Mayfield, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 23, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 1, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S12322
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- A05962 (octal 50054542)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 23, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 23, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 1, 2026
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01288582
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Midwest Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 68 Smith Beane Rd
Mayfield, KY 42066-7926
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N121WE, 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 Midwest Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 23, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 1, 2026, 7 years after the 2019 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S12322 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N121WE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Air Transportation Inc WHITE LIGHT WLAC 1 (serial 76, cancelled December 17, 2014). 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 N121WE: Accident on January 31, 1992 at Aztec, NM: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Air Trans. INC WHITE LIGHTNING · operated under 091
THE INADVERTENT STALL AND THE PILOT'S LACK OF EXPERIENCE IN THE ACCIDENT AIRCRAFT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW92DQA01 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