Textron Aviation Inc 172S
N506ER 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 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University INC, a corporation in Prescott, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 29, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 19, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S12857
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A650AE (octal 51450256)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 29, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 29, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 19, 2022
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01364293
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- Attn: Accts Payable
3700 Willow Creek Rd
Prescott, AZ 86301-3720
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 N506ER, 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 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 29, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 19, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S12857 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N506ER was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172S (serial 172S8617, cancelled August 30, 2001). 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 N506ER: Accident on May 24, 2001 at Cottonwood, AZ: serious 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 172S · operated under 091
the student's inadequate compensation for the gusty crosswind conditions and the subsequent loss of aircraft control during landing roll. The flight instructor’s inadequate supervision and his inadequate remedial action is also causal. Contributing factors were the gusty and crosswind weather conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX01LA191 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