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N335MC

Textron Aviation Inc 172S

Valid Illinois

N335MC is a Textron Aviation Inc 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2022. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Lewis University, a corporation in Romeoville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 10, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 17, 2022.

Aircraft

Maker
Textron Aviation Inc
Model
172S · all 172Ss and related versions
Serial number
172S12879
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2022
Transponder code
A3A978 (octal 50724570)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 10, 2023
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
February 27, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · September 17, 2022
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01367889

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lewis University
Type
Corporation
Address
1 University Pkwy
Romeoville, IL 60446-2200

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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 1

2013-06-07Gulfstream Aerospace GV-SP (G550) · exported to Mexico · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N335MC, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Lewis University, a corporation, certificate issued February 10, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 17, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S12879 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N335MC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Gulfstream Aerospace GV-SP (G550) (serial 5282, cancelled June 7, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N335MC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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