Cessna 182P
N1542M is a Cessna 182P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1975. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Minot, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 1, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 22, 1975. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 182P · all 182Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 18264368
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1975
- Cruising speed
- 120 mph
- Transponder code
- A0DBB5 (octal 50155665)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 1, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 1, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 22, 1975
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00140890
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Melgaard Kenneth William
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1920 Meadowlark Dr
Minot, ND 58701-6834 - Co-owners
- Melgaard Tabitha Jo
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N1542M, 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 Melgaard Kenneth William, a co-owned, certificate issued May 1, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 22, 1975, consistent with the 1975 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18264368 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1542M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing B-17F (serial 6332, cancelled June 21, 1951). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 4, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1542M. 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 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