Textron Aviation Inc 172S
N977TH 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 Heavy Metal Air LLC, an LLC in Farmingdale, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 7, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated May 17, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- 172S · all 172Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- 172S12977
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2023
- Transponder code
- AD9F57 (octal 53317527)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 7, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 23, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · May 17, 2023
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01377993
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heavy Metal Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 7150 Republic Airport Ste 101
Farmingdale, NY 11735-3999
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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 · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N977TH, 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 Heavy Metal Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 7, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated May 17, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S12977 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N977TH 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N977TH. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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