Cessna 172S
N571BW is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Bridgewater State University, a government body in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 30, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 20, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S9738
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A7524E (octal 51651116)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 30, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 27, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 20, 2004
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00129769
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bridgewater State University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 131 Summer St
Bridgewater, MA 02325-0001
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N571BW, 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 Bridgewater State University, a government body, certificate issued September 30, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 20, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9738 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N571BW 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N571BW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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