Cessna 172S
N971TA is a Cessna 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Banner Aviation LLC, an LLC in Trabuco Canyon, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 12, 2002 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 23, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S9170
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- AD8906 (octal 53304406)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 12, 2002
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 23, 2002
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00904104
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Banner Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 19352 Sleeping Oak Dr
Trabuco Canyon, CA 92679-1095
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.
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The public federal record on N971TA, 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 Banner Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 12, 2002, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 23, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S9170 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N971TA according to the deregistered file. [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 N971TA: Accident on July 17, 2013 at Santa Barbra, CA: no 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 172S · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate landing flare, which resulted in a hard landing.
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