Cessna 172S
N2272C is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Bartow Municipal Airport Development Authority, a government body in Bartow, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 8, 2017 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 19, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S9954
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A1FDA3 (octal 50376643)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 8, 2017
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 19, 2005
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00202719
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bartow Municipal Airport Development Authority
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 5993 Airport Blvd
Bartow, FL 33830
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N2272C, 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 Bartow Municipal Airport Development Authority, a government body, certificate issued September 8, 2017, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 19, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9954 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2272C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Scaled Composites Inc 226 (serial 002, cancelled September 4, 2002); Cessna T303 (serial T30300083, cancelled date not given). 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 N2272C: Accident on November 8, 2016 at Sarasota, FL: 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 · operated under 091
The student pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA17CA065 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