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N2146C

Cessna T182T

Valid Texas

N2146C is a Cessna T182T, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2003. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Van Bortel Aircraft INC, a corporation in Arlington, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 7, 2019.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
T182T · all T182Ts and related versions
Serial number
T18208222
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turboprop, 1 motor · Lycoming TIO-540-AK1A · 235 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2003
Transponder code
A1CB8B (octal 50345613)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
October 29, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · March 7, 2019
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00077279

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Van Bortel Aircraft INC
Type
Corporation
Address
4912 S Collins St
Arlington, TX 76018-1135

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 1

1985-07-25Cessna 177B · Administratively canceled

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N2146C, 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 Van Bortel Aircraft INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 7, 2019, 16 years after the 2003 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T18208222 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2146C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 177B (serial 17702741, cancelled July 25, 1985). 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

1 NTSB record under N2146C: Accident on January 15, 1984 at Lafayette, GA: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal). 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

ATL84FA082Accident on January 15, 1984 at Lafayette, GA: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 17702741

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 177B · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL84FA082 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.

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