Cessna 172S
N741WB is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Eastern Kentucky University, a government body in Richmond, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 30, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 5, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S11571
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A9F837 (octal 52374067)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 30, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 5, 2015
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01177178
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Eastern Kentucky University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- Commonwealth 1411 521 Lancaster
Lancaster Ave
Richmond, KY 40475
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N741WB, 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 Eastern Kentucky University, a government body, certificate issued September 30, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 5, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S11571 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N741WB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Xray 78 Inc RV-4 (serial 262, cancelled January 12, 1999). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N741WB: Accident on October 10, 1998 at Apopka, FL: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). 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: W.S. Bowers, Jr. RV-4 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain airspeed while performing aerobatics which resulted in the lost of control and a stall/spin. A contributing factor was the low altitude at which the maneuver was performed.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL99LA007 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