Cessna 172S
N124ME is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Jet Air INC, a corporation in Iowa City, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 6, 2022 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 13, 2000.
Where is it now Last seen October 7 at 5:20 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 172 Skyhawk family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 172S8372
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A063A6 (octal 50061646)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 6, 2022
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 13, 2000
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00493543
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jet Air INC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1801 S Riverside Dr
Iowa City, IA 52246-5704
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
Connections how N124ME links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,680 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360 series 8,559 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Jet Air INC 45 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to April 17, 2027
- Iowa City, IA 102 aircraft registered in this town
- Iowa City Municipal · IOW
- Iowa 4,510 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 4,219 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 857 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360 series 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360 series 39 reports since 1995
- Where N124ME is now · Last seen October 7 at 5:20 pm.
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The public federal record on N124ME, 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 Jet Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 6, 2022, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 13, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8372 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N124ME was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerospatiale SA-365C "DAUPHIN" (serial 5051, cancelled date not given). 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 N124ME: Accident on June 5, 2016 at Henderson, AR: 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: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
The pilot's decision to abort the takeoff, which resulted in a hard landing and nose landing gear collapse.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data