Cessna 172S
N9347T is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2012. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Lewis University, a corporation in Romeoville, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2012 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 10, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S11166
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- ACF7E4 (octal 53173744)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 30, 2012
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 10, 2012
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01092895
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lewis University
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- One University Parkway
Romeoville, IL 60446
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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9347T, 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 Lewis University, a corporation, certificate issued July 30, 2012, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 10, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S11166 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9347T was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-38-112 (serial 38-78A0059, cancelled June 25, 2007); Cessna 180C (serial 50847, cancelled August 9, 1960). 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 N9347T: Accident on August 8, 2003 at Granbury, TX: no injuries, destroyed. 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-38 · operated under 091
The loss of engine power for an undetermined reason. A contributing factor was the lack of suitable terrain available for the forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW03LA192 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