Cessna 172P
N97945 is a Cessna 172P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Kent State University, a government body in Stow, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 25, 1990 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 5, 1984.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 172P · all 172Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 17276241
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- ADA816 (octal 53324026)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 25, 1990
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · September 5, 1984
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00651784
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kent State University
- Type
- Government
- Address
- 4020 Kent Rd
Stow, OH 44224
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 · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N97945, 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 Kent State University, a government body, certificate issued October 25, 1990, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 5, 1984, consistent with the 1984 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17276241 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N97945 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stinson 108-1 (serial 945, cancelled October 23, 1951). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N97945. 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