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N401ER

Textron Aviation Inc 172S

Valid Florida

N401ER is a Textron Aviation Inc 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2020. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University INC, a corporation in Daytona Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 4, 2020 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 1, 2020.

Aircraft

Maker
Textron Aviation Inc
Model
172S · all 172Ss and related versions
Serial number
172S12535
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2020
Transponder code
A4B0CC (octal 51130314)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 4, 2020
Expires
December 31, 2027
Last FAA action
April 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · September 1, 2020
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
01321080

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University INC
Type
Corporation
Address
1 Aerospace Blvd
Daytona Beach, FL 32114-3910

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 2

2012-11-30Cessna 172S · exported to Canada · Third notice for re-registration or renewal
2003-10-21Cessna 172R · exported to Germany · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N401ER, 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 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 4, 2020, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 1, 2020, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S12535 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N401ER was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172S (serial 172S10057, cancelled November 30, 2012); Cessna 172R (serial 17280159, cancelled October 21, 2003). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N401ER: Accident on October 21, 2006 at Ormond Beach, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

MIA07CA008Accident on October 21, 2006 at Ormond Beach, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 172S10057

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172S · operated under 091

The failure of the student pilot to initiate a recovery from the bounced landing resulting in a hard landing.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA07CA008 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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