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A Cessna 182 Skylane, the same model family as N182YZ
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N182YZ

Cessna 182S

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlabama

N182YZ is a Cessna 182S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Southern Latitude LLC, an LLC in Alabaster, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 9, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 18, 1998.

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Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
182S · all 182Ss 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
18280198
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 SER · 300 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1998
Transponder code
A14A58 (octal 50245130)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 9, 2023
Expires
August 31, 2030
Last FAA action
August 9, 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 · May 18, 1998
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00537091

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Southern Latitude 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
150 Airpark Industrial Rd
Alabaster, AL 35007-9597

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N182YZ links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Lycoming IO-540 series 4,222 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
  • Type certificate 3A13 · held by Textron Aviation INC
Owner
Place
  • Alabaster, AL 18 aircraft registered in this town
  • Shelby County · EET
  • Alabama 4,349 aircraft registered
Airworthiness
Live

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The public federal record on N182YZ, 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 Southern Latitude LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 9, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated May 18, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18280198 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N182YZ 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 N182YZ. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data