Cessna 182H
N1998X is a Cessna 182H, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Blue Sky Powers N1998X LLC, an LLC in Dover, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 24, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 26, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 182H · all 182Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- 18256098
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 119 mph
- Transponder code
- A18D20 (octal 50306440)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 24, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 24, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 26, 1965
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00013130
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blue Sky Powers N1998X LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 8 The Grn Ste B
Dover, DE 19901-3618
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N1998X, 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 Blue Sky Powers N1998X LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 24, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 26, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18256098 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1998X according to the deregistered file. [2]
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]
1 NTSB record under N1998X: Accident on October 4, 2025 at Smithfield, RI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182H · operated under 091
Maintenance personnel’s improper rigging of the elevator trim system, which resulted in a hard landing. Contributing was the maintenance personnel and pilot’s failure to perform adequate post maintenance/preflight inspections.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA26LA009 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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