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N182VQ

Cessna 182Q

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesIllinois

N182VQ is a Cessna 182Q, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Dimension Controls INC, a corporation in Burr Ridge, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 1996 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 13, 1978.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
182Q · all 182Qs 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
18266332
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 IO-550-D · 300 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
4
Year built
1978
Cruising speed
112 mph
Transponder code
A14A04 (octal 50245004)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 5, 1996
Expires
March 31, 2029
Last FAA action
April 8, 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 · March 13, 1978
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00830140

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Dimension Controls INC
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
100 Shore Dr Ste 2
Burr Ridge, IL 60527-5819

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N182VQ links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Burr Ridge, IL 16 aircraft registered in this town
  • Illinois 8,071 aircraft registered
Airworthiness

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The public federal record on N182VQ, 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 Dimension Controls INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 5, 1996, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated March 13, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18266332 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N182VQ 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 N182VQ. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

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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