Cessna 172S
N195NW is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Northwestern Michigan College, a government body in Traverse City, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 26, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 17, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S11095
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- A17BFF (octal 50275777)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 26, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 17, 2011
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01068217
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Northwestern Michigan College
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 1701 E Front St
Traverse City, MI 49686-3016
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N195NW, 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 Northwestern Michigan College, a government body, certificate issued January 26, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 17, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S11095 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N195NW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 421B (serial 421B0629, cancelled August 13, 1991). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N195NW: Accident on June 25, 2015 at Traverse City, MI: no injuries, substantial 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: Cessna 172 - S · operated under 091
The student pilot's failure to maintain pitch control during the landing, resulting in a hard landing.
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
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