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Cessna 210L
N12PW is a Cessna 210L, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Ohio State University College of Engineering, a government body in Columbus, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 5, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 11, 1973.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 210L · all 210Ls 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 210 Centurion 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
- 21059796
- 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 · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 87 mph
- Transponder code
- A052B3 (octal 50051263)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 5, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2026
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 11, 1973
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00950310
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ohio State University College of Engineering
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2300 W Case Rd
Columbus, OH 43235 - Co-owners
- Aerospace Research Center
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.
Connections how N12PW links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 210 Centurion 1,526 registered
- Cessna 72,685 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-520 series 9,485 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
- Ohio State University College of Engineering 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Columbus, OH 280 aircraft registered in this town
- Bolton Field · TZR
- John Glenn Columbus International · CMH
- Ohio State University Airport · OSU
- Rickenbacker International · LCK
- Ohio 8,529 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 210 Centurion 59 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 210 Centurion 646 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 210 Centurion 589 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-520 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520 series 465 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N12PW.json.
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The public federal record on N12PW, 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 Ohio State University College of Engineering, a government body, certificate issued May 5, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 11, 1973, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 21059796 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N12PW 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N12PW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data