Cessna 172S
N2100S 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 Bietsch Aviation LLC, an LLC in Dumfries, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 4, 2009 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 5, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S9589
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A1BBEB (octal 50335753)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 4, 2009
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 5, 2004
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00091069
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bietsch Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 15702 Chapman Pl
Dumfries, VA 22025-1315
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 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N2100S, 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 Bietsch Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 4, 2009, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 5, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9589 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2100S was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Young Stephen MERLIN GT (serial 94014, cancelled September 20, 1997); Cessna 310K (serial 310K0127, cancelled August 20, 1991); Cessna 210L (serial 21061066, cancelled July 15, 1976). 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]
2 NTSB records under N2100S: Accident on December 3, 2021 at Midland, VA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 19, 1997 at Fort Myers, FL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172S · operated under 091
Collision with a bird in flight, which resulted in damage to the right-wing leading-edge spar.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA22LA084 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Young MERLIN GT · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain airspeed during the initial climb after takeoff, which resulted in an inadvertent stall/spin and subsequent collision with the terrain. Factors relating to the accident were: the pilot's failure to use all available runway, and his failure to recognize the reduced performance of the aircraft, when it was configured with floats, and was flown with two occupants aboard, with the doors locked open.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA97LA141 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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