Cessna 172S
N780BW 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 Bridgewater State University, a government body in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 31, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 2, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S8600
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER A&C · 200 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2000
- Transponder code
- AA90B4 (octal 52510264)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 31, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 27, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · October 2, 2000
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00196020
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bridgewater State University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- Aviation Training Ctr New Bedford
Regional Arpt 1852 Shawmut Ave
North Dartmouth, MA 02747
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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 N780BW, 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 Bridgewater State University, a government body, certificate issued December 31, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated October 2, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S8600 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N780BW 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 N780BW. 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