Cessna 182T
N227TF is a Cessna 182T, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Top Flight Aviation INC, a corporation in Corona, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 5, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 2, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 182T · all 182Ts and related versions
- Serial number
- 18281826
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-AB1A5 · 230 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A1FCB1 (octal 50376261)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 5, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 5, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 2, 2021
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00251049
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Top Flight Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 768 Samantha Cir
Corona, CA 92879-8616
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 N227TF, 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 Top Flight Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 5, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 2, 2021, 15 years after the 2006 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18281826 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N227TF 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 N227TF: Accident on May 7, 2026 at Armistead, CA: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). 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 182T · operated under 091
On May 7, 2026, about 1055 pacific daylight time (PDT), a Cessna 182T airplane, N227TF, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Armistead, California. The flight instructor and the pilot receiving instruction were fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. According to the flight school, Top Flight Aviation, the flight instructor, who was presumably seated in the right seat, and the pilot receiving instruction, who was presumably seated in the left seat, had planned to fly from the Corona Municipal Airport …
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC26FA039 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data