Cessna 172R
N70SU is a Cessna 172R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. 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 September 24, 2008 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 8, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172R · all 172Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- 17280460
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A953D8 (octal 52251730)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 24, 2008
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 8, 1998
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00327171
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.
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The public federal record on N70SU, 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 September 24, 2008, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 8, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17280460 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N70SU 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]
1 NTSB record under N70SU: Accident on April 30, 2004 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: Cessna C-152 · operated under 091
The student pilot's improper flare, and inadequate recovery from a bounced landing, which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC04CA113 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