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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.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 10:02 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cirrus Design Corp
- Model
- SR20 · all SR20s and related versions
- Built of
- compositeThe airframe is composite: carbon fibre or glass fibre set in resin, moulded in large pieces with few joints, which gives smooth shapes but needs different inspection and repair methods from metal. With a whole-airframe parachute. This is how the Cirrus SR20 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
- 1739
- 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-360-ES · 210 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A12652 (octal 50223122)
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 11, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 24, 2006
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00294069
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Board of Trustees of Western Michigan University (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
- 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
- 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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N173WM links to the rest of the register
- Cirrus SR20 1,632 registered
- Cirrus Design Corp 9,513 aircraft on the register
- Built of composite · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-360-ES 401 aircraft with this engine series · 210 hp
- Board Of Trustees Of Western Michigan University 55 aircraft in the fleet
- Battle Creek, MI 106 aircraft registered in this town
- Battle Creek Executive AT Kellogg Field · BTL
- Michigan 7,224 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cirrus SR20 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cirrus SR20 298 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cirrus SR20 145 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-360-ES 16 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-360-ES 176 reports since 1995
- Where N173WM is now · Last seen yesterday at 10:02 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N173WM.json.
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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]
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 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 November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data