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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.
Where is it now Last seen today at 6:20 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Embraer
- Model
- ERJ 170-200 LR · all ERJ 170-200 LRs 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 Embraer ERJ 170 E170 and E175 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
- 17000569
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbofanFAA type of engine code 5 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Ge CF34-8E5 · 14,510 lb thrust
- Seats
- 88
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A0F70C (octal 50173414)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 20, 2016
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 21, 2016
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01221888
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Skywest Airlines INC
- 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
- 444 S River Rd
St George, UT 84790-2085
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 N161SY links to the rest of the register
- Embraer ERJ 170 E170 and E175 761 registered
- Embraer 663 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- General Electric CF34-8E5 698 aircraft with this engine series · 14,510 lb thrust
- Skywest Airlines INC 565 aircraft in the fleet
- St George, UT 674 aircraft registered in this town
- St. George Regional · SGU
- Utah 8,358 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Embraer ERJ 170 E170 and E175 75 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Embraer ERJ 170 E170 and E175 33,251 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Embraer ERJ 170 E170 and E175 74 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the General Electric CF34-8E5 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the General Electric CF34-8E5 547 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Skin, dented · 2026-06-02
- Report filed on this aircraft: Flap Track, damaged · 2024-07-10
- Report filed on this aircraft: Seat Track, corroded · 2024-07-08
- Where N161SY is now · Last seen today at 6:20 pm.
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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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data