Textron Aviation Inc 172S
N9157A is a Textron Aviation Inc 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2021. It has 4 seats. It is registered to 9K Air LLC, an LLC in Newark, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 26, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 19, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S12755
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- ACAC8C (octal 53126214)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 26, 2022
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · November 19, 2021
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01348807
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- 9K Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 117 Sale Church Rd
Newark, DE 19713
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N9157A, 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 9K Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 26, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 19, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S12755 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9157A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 170A (serial 18918, cancelled February 1, 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 N9157A: Accident on September 10, 1990 at Elk Mountain, WY: serious 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 170A · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED WHILE AT AN ALTITUDE THAT DID NOT PROVIDE ADEQUATE TERRAIN CLEARANCE FOR A SAFE STALL RECOVERY.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA90LA178 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