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N181CS, a Textron Aviation Inc 182T
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N181CS

Textron Aviation Inc 182T

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNebraska

N181CS is a Textron Aviation Inc 182T, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2024. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Elkhorn Valley Trucks II LLC, an LLC in Fremont, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 8, 2024. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

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Aircraft

Maker
Textron Aviation Inc
Model
182T · all 182Ts 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
18283280
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 · Lycoming IO-540-AB1A5 · 230 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
4
Year built
2024
Transponder code
A144A6 (octal 50242246)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
February 12, 2025
Expires
February 29, 2032
Last FAA action
June 9, 2025
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 · November 8, 2024
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01465014

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Elkhorn Valley Trucks II LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
2511 W 23Rd Dr
Fremont, NE 68025-8076

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

2026-11-04Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Earlier use of this number 1

2017-03-31Dehavilland DHC-6-200 · First notice for registration renewal

Connections how N181CS links to the rest of the register

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The public federal record on N181CS, 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 Elkhorn Valley Trucks II LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 12, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated November 8, 2024, consistent with the 2024 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18283280 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N181CS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dehavilland DHC-6-200 (serial 181, cancelled March 31, 2017). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (November 4, 2026). [3]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N181CS: Accident on September 6, 2015 at Louisburg, NC: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

ERA15LA343Accident on September 6, 2015 at Louisburg, NC: serious injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 181

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Dehavilland DHC-6 · operated under 091

The propeller’s movement to the beta position during landing for reasons that could not be determined during postaccident examination and testing, which resulted in an attempted go-around and subsequent loss of airplane control.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data