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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N115NJ

Cessna 182J

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNew Jersey

N115NJ is a Cessna 182J, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Usda Forest Service Fepp, a government body in Trenton, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 1999 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 28, 1966.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
182J · all 182Js and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Cessna 182 Skylane family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
18256954
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1966
Cruising speed
119 mph
Transponder code
A03FFB (octal 50037773)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
September 14, 1999
Expires
June 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 19, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 28, 1966
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00850453

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Usda Forest Service Fepp
Type
GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
PO Box 420
Trenton, NJ 08625-0420
Co-owners
New Jersey Forest Fire Service

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N115NJ links to the rest of the register

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N115NJ, 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 Usda Forest Service Fepp, a government body, certificate issued September 14, 1999, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated January 28, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18256954 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N115NJ 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N115NJ. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data