Cirrus Design Corp SR20
N173WM is a Cirrus Design Corp SR20, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Board Of Trustees Of Western Michigan University, a government body in Battle Creek, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 11, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 24, 2006. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cirrus Design Corp
- Model
- SR20 · all SR20s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1739
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-360-ES · 210 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A12652 (octal 50223122)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 11, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 24, 2006
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00294069
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Board Of Trustees Of Western Michigan University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 237 N Helmer Rd
Battle Creek, MI 49037
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 1
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N173WM, 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 Board Of Trustees Of Western Michigan University, a government body, certificate issued May 11, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1739 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N173WM according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 3, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N173WM. 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 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