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.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 2:49 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 172 Skyhawk family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 172S8671
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- A9F428 (octal 52372050)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 3, 2014
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 11, 2000
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00683665
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jet Air INC (flight school: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N740SP links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 172 Skyhawk 20,680 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360 series 8,559 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Jet Air INC 45 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to April 17, 2027
- Iowa City, IA 102 aircraft registered in this town
- Iowa City Municipal · IOW
- Iowa 4,510 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 88 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 4,220 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 172 Skyhawk 857 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360 series 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360 series 39 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Spinner, cracked · 2002-08-20
- Report filed on this aircraft: Spinner, cracked · 2002-04-11
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bulkhead, cracked · 2002-04-11
- Where N740SP is now · Last seen Thursday at 2:49 pm.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172S · operated under 091
The student pilot’s improper recovery from a bounced landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data