Textron Aviation Inc 172S
N30SU is a Textron Aviation Inc 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Ohio State University, a government body in Columbus, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 22, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 31, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S11625
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A31E9C (octal 50617234)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 22, 2021
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 31, 2015
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01182784
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ohio State University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 2160 West Case Rd
Columbus, OH 43235-2539
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 N30SU, 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 Ohio State University, a government body, certificate issued February 22, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 31, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S11625 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N30SU was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 402B (serial 402B0241, cancelled October 2, 1980). 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 N30SU: Accident on November 14, 2017 at Columbus, 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Textron Aviation INC 172 · operated under 091
The student pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a porpoise.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA18CA046 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