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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of September 25, 2026
N257TA

Textron Aviation Inc 172S

Valid (manufacturer) Kansas

N257TA is a Textron Aviation Inc 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Textron Aviation INC, a corporation in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Textron Aviation Inc
Model
172S
Serial number
172S13615
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A27329 (octal 50471451)

Registration

Status
Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
July 24, 2026
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01569445

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Textron Aviation INC
Type
Corporation
Address
1 Cessna Blvd
Wichita, KS 67215-1400

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.

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data