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N2461E

Cessna 182S

Valid Montana

N2461E 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 Wadekamper Leo, a partnership in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 6, 2008 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 21, 2000.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
182S · all 182Ss and related versions
Serial number
18280805
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2000
Transponder code
A248C9 (octal 50444311)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 6, 2008
Expires
September 30, 2027
Last FAA action
March 17, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · August 21, 2000
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00386000

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wadekamper Leo
Type
Partnership
Address
100 Alfalfa Rd
Helena, MT 59602-7103
Co-owners
Wadekamper Mary

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

1972-01-17Aeronca 7AC · exported to Canada · Valid registration
—Piper PA-38-112 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N2461E, 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 Wadekamper Leo, a partnership, certificate issued June 6, 2008, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated August 21, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18280805 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2461E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-6040, cancelled January 17, 1972); Piper PA-38-112 (serial 3878A0469, 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N2461E. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 September 30, 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