Cessna 182S
N257AE is a Cessna 182S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Bhm Kcak LLC, an LLC in Akron, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 6, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 2, 1997.
Where is it now Last seen Friday at 5:51 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cessna
- Model
- 182S · all 182Ss and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe 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
- 18280019
- 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
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A27184 (octal 50470604)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 6, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 6, 2024
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 2, 1997
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00356351
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bhm Kcak 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
- 4671 Tahiti Dr
Akron, OH 44319-4435
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N257AE links to the rest of the register
- Cessna 182 Skylane 11,834 registered
- Cessna 72,684 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-540 series 4,222 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Type certificate 3A13 · held by Textron Aviation INC
- Bhm Kcak LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Akron, OH 93 aircraft registered in this town
- Akron-Canton Regional · CAK
- Akron Fulton International · AKR
- Mayfield Airport · 1D4
- Ohio 8,529 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Cessna 182 Skylane 64 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Cessna 182 Skylane 1,189 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Cessna 182 Skylane 748 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540 series 49 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540 series 316 reports since 1995
- Where N257AE is now · Last seen Friday at 5:51 pm.
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The public federal record on N257AE, 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 Bhm Kcak LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 6, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated July 2, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18280019 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N257AE 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N257AE. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data