Textron Aviation Inc 172S
N716TH is a Textron Aviation Inc 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2017. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Fairmont State University, a government body in Fairmont, West Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 10, 2018 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 13, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S12008
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- A99408 (octal 52312010)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 10, 2018
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 13, 2017
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01241114
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fairmont State University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 1201 Locust Ave
Fairmont, WV 26554-2451
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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 N716TH, 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 Fairmont State University, a government body, certificate issued January 10, 2018, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 13, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S12008 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N716TH 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 N716TH. 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