Embraer ERJ 170-200 LR
N161SY is an Embraer ERJ 170-200 LR, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 2016. It has 88 seats. It is registered to Skywest Airlines INC, a corporation in St George, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 20, 2016 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated June 21, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Embraer
- Model
- ERJ 170-200 LR · all ERJ 170-200 LRs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17000569
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbofan, 2 motors · Ge CF34-8E5 · 14,510 lb thrust
- Seats
- 88
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A0F70C (octal 50173414)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 20, 2016
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · June 21, 2016
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01221888
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Skywest Airlines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 444 S River Rd
St George, UT 84790-2085
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N161SY, 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 Skywest Airlines INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 20, 2016, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for transport, dated June 21, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17000569 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N161SY 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]
1 NTSB record under N161SY: Incident on December 4, 2016 at San Antonio, TX: minor 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: Embraer ERJ170 200LR · operated under 121
A failure of the nose landing gear down lock spring which precluded normal downlock operation of the nose landing gear. The spring failure was due to the presence of too much retained austenite which led to the formation of progressive cracking and subsequent failure of the spring.
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