Textron Aviation Inc 172S
N129SW is a Textron Aviation Inc 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2018. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Royal Air LLC, an LLC in Sarasota, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 10, 2019 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 4, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S12210
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A076C6 (octal 50073306)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 10, 2019
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- February 6, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 4, 2018
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01279869
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Royal Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 8128 Scarletbush Dr
Sarasota, FL 34240-1729
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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 N129SW, 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 Royal Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 10, 2019, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 4, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S12210 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N129SW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing 737-2K6 (serial 22340, cancelled March 14, 2005). 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 N129SW: Incident on October 4, 1997 at Chicago, IL: no injuries, minor 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: Boeing 737-200 · operated under 121
an improper repair to a crack in a brake flange hole on the left main landing gear outboard axle, and subsequent fatigue failure of the axle.
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