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N20818

Textron Aviation Inc 172S

Valid Delaware

N20818 is a Textron Aviation Inc 172S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to N20818 LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 15, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated October 31, 2020.

Aircraft

Maker
Textron Aviation Inc
Model
172S · all 172Ss and related versions
Serial number
172S12579
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-360-L2A · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A1B257 (octal 50331127)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 15, 2026
Expires
July 31, 2033
Last FAA action
July 15, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · October 31, 2020
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01321228

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
N20818 LLC
Type
LLC
Address
1013 Centre Rd Ste 403-A
Wilmington, DE 19805-1270

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.

Earlier use of this number 3

2012-12-07Wsk-Pzl-Mielec TS-11 ISKRA · Sale reported, canceled
1998-03-23Cessna 182P · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1943-05-03Piper J-3 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N20818, 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 N20818 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 15, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 172S12579 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N20818 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Wsk-Pzl-Mielec TS-11 ISKRA (serial 1H0810, cancelled December 7, 2012); Cessna 182P (serial 18261230, cancelled March 23, 1998); Piper J-3 (serial 2118, cancelled May 3, 1943). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

2 NTSB records under N20818: Accident on September 2, 2023 at Englewood, CO: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 9, 1994 at Nampa, ID: no 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 2

CEN23LA394Accident on September 2, 2023 at Englewood, CO: minor injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Textron Aviation INC 172S · operated under 091

An in-flight collision with multiple geese during initial climb.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN23LA394 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

SEA94LA207Accident on August 9, 1994 at Nampa, ID: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 18261230

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182P · operated under 091

FUEL STARVATION DUE TO THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND'S FAILURE TO VERIFY THE FUEL TANK SELECTOR POSITION DURING THE APPROACH, AND HIS FAILURE TO PERFORM THE PUBLISHED EMERGENCY PROCEDURES FOR AN ENGINE-OUT SITUATION. A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT WAS A TRANSMISSION WIRE.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA94LA207 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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.

Request the full report for N20818What the full report adds

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data