Cessna 172S
N740SP is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Jet Air INC, a corporation in Iowa City, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 3, 2014 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 11, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S8671
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A9F428 (octal 52372050)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 3, 2014
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 11, 2000
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00683665
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jet Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1801 S Riverside Dr
Iowa City, IA 52246-5704
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 N740SP, 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 Jet Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 3, 2014, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 11, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8671 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N740SP 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]
3 NTSB records under N740SP: Accident on March 9, 2025 at Brooksville, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 10, 2015 at Galesburg, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 22, 2013 at Manassas, VA: 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 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172 · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a hard, bounced landing and substantial damage to the airplane’s fuselage.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA25LA148 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172S · operated under 091
Firewall damage reported by maintenance personnel that occurred during an unknown phase of flight, because the accident flight and pilot could not be determined.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA15CA161 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172S · operated under 091
The student pilot’s improper recovery from a bounced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA13CA371 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data