Textron Aviation Inc 172S
N915D is a Textron Aviation Inc 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2017. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Ab Prop Plane II LLC, an LLC in Metairie, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 23, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 28, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S12071
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2017
- Transponder code
- ACA989 (octal 53124611)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 23, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 23, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · August 28, 2017
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01258610
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ab Prop Plane II LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3838 N Causeway Blvd Ste 3335
Metairie, LA 70002-8361
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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 2
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The public federal record on N915D, 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 Ab Prop Plane II LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 23, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 28, 2017, consistent with the 2017 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S12071 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N915D was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Jacobs Dennis R RUTAN VARI VIGGEN (serial 466, cancelled September 9, 2002); Enstrom F-28 (serial 1, cancelled May 7, 1962). 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 N915D: Accident on June 16, 2002 at Urbana, IL: fatal, destroyed (1 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: Jacobs Rutan Vari Viggen · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to abort the takeoff. Additional factors included the partial loss of engine power due to an excessively rich mixture as a result of a bad accelerator pump housing seal, and the pilot failed to maintain control of the airplane.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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