Cessna 172S
N229ME is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Tom Wood Aviation INC, a corporation in Fishers, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 26, 2013 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 23, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S8483
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A20388 (octal 50401610)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 26, 2013
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 23, 2000
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00415710
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tom Wood Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 9913 Willow View Rd
Fishers, IN 46038-2151
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N229ME, 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 Tom Wood Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 26, 2013, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 23, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8483 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N229ME 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]
2 NTSB records under N229ME: Accident on June 26, 2004 at Fishers, IN: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 19, 2003 at Cleveland, OH: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172S · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate remedial actions after an inadequate landing flare and subsequent hard landing. Additional causes were the pilot-induced porpoise and the collapse of the nose landing gear.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI04CA165 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper flare, which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for IAD03CA071 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