Cessna 172S
N2097G is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Mountain Air Aviation LLC, an LLC in Fruit Heights, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 16, 2015 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 30, 2004.
Where is it now Last seen Saturday at 1:57 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss 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 Cessna 172 Skyhawk 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
- 172S9662
- 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 · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A1B6C6 (octal 50333306)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 16, 2015
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 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 · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 30, 2004
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00123889
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mountain Air Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 980 e Raymond Rd
Fruit Heights, UT 84037-2248
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 4
Connections how N2097G links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,680 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360-L2A 2,646 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Mountain Air Aviation LLC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Fruit Heights, UT 6 aircraft registered in this town
- Utah 8,355 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 4,220 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 857 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360-L2A 26 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360-L2A 993 reports since 1995
- Where N2097G is now · Last seen Saturday at 1:57 pm.
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The public federal record on N2097G, 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 Mountain Air Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 16, 2015, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 30, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9662 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2097G was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Daniels Harry Harold Jr RANS S-12 AIRAILE (serial 0592218, cancelled April 21, 1998); Douglas C-118B (serial 131569, cancelled December 5, 1989); Cessna 182A (serial 51397, cancelled August 22, 1967). 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 N2097G: Accident on October 31, 2006 at Richfield, UT: 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 172S · operated under 091
The student pilot's inability to compensate for the gusty crosswinds during the initial part of the landing roll, which resulted in a loss of control and a noseover. Factors associated with the accident are gusty crosswinds, and a mound/berm of dirt alongside the runway.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data