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A Cessna 182 Skylane, the same model family as N2242C
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N2242C

Cessna 182S

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesArkansas

N2242C is a Cessna 182S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Cac of Ar LLC, an LLC in White Hall, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 23, 2014 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 14, 2000.

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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
18280779
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
2000
Transponder code
A1F27E (octal 50371176)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
April 23, 2014
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 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 · August 14, 2000
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00675990

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cac of Ar 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
7200 Sheridan Rd
White Hall, AR 71602-3224

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 2

1997-06-26Hodges Michael S FP 404 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
—Cessna 180 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Connections how N2242C 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
  • White Hall, AR 10 aircraft registered in this town
  • Arkansas 3,495 aircraft registered
Airworthiness
Live

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The public federal record on N2242C, 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 Cac of Ar LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 23, 2014, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated August 14, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18280779 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2242C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Hodges Michael S FP 404 (serial MSH4041, cancelled June 26, 1997); Cessna 180 (serial 30542, cancelled date not given). 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 N2242C: Accident on March 10, 1985 at Arroyo Seco, NM: no injuries, destroyed. 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

DEN85LA092Accident on March 10, 1985 at Arroyo Seco, NM: no injuries, destroyed.serial on NTSB record: 30542

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 180 · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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