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N938ER

Textron Aviation Inc 172S

Valid Florida

N938ER is a Textron Aviation Inc 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2023. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, a corporation in Daytona Beach, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 10, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 31, 2023.

Aircraft

Maker
Textron Aviation Inc
Model
172S · all 172Ss and related versions
Serial number
172S12988
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2023
Transponder code
AD03D5 (octal 53201725)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 10, 2023
Expires
August 31, 2030
Last FAA action
August 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · May 31, 2023
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
01385484

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Type
Corporation
Address
1 Aerospace Blvd
Daytona Beach, FL 32114-3910

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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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N938ER, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, a corporation, certificate issued August 10, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 31, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S12988 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N938ER according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N938ER: Accident on March 29, 2006 at Daytona Beach, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

MIA06LA074Accident on March 29, 2006 at Daytona Beach, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 44-96200

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-44-180 · operated under 091

Failure of the nose landing gear upper drag brace assembly due to overload acting on an undetected forging defect formed during the initial forging of the brace. A contributing factor in this accident was the runway distance remaining sign.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA06LA074 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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