Cessna 172S
N9181P is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Northwestern Michigan College, a corporation in Traverse City, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 14, 2011 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated March 1, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S11084
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2011
- Transponder code
- ACB6EC (octal 53133354)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 14, 2011
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · March 1, 2011
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01064487
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Northwestern Michigan College
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1701 East Front St
Traverse City, MI 49686
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 N9181P, 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 Northwestern Michigan College, a corporation, certificate issued April 14, 2011, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated March 1, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S11084 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9181P was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-24-260 (serial 24-4671, cancelled July 20, 2005). 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 N9181P: Accident on May 19, 2003 at Blaney Park, MI: minor 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: Piper PA-24-260 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance with the tree line. Factors contributing to this accident were the wind gusts and the trees.
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